Da Schmitz a Svevo (e ritorno). Edizione critica e commentata dei carteggi di I. Svevo con J. Joyce, V. Larbaud, B. Crémieux, M.-A. Comnène, E. Montale e G. Prezzolini

The thesis consists in the commented edition of the correspondence between the writer Italo Svevo and those who took part in the ―Svevo affair‖. The main reasons for the choice of this topic are two: first of all, the present study allows for an update of the philological state of the documents involved; secondly this work is an attempt to reinterpret Italo Svevo‘s role as a writer, by using his words to question certain ideas passed along and established by the critical vulgata over a period of many years. This research also offers an insight on how the author responded to certain accusations raised by some Italian intellectual environments, whose main claims were related to his imperfect language, his almost foreign origins (or in other words, the marginality of his native city of Trieste), as well as to his anomalous literary career. This work has added more unpublished documents to the material previously acquired, which were found in Italian and foreign libraries and archives during my doctorate studies.