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Of the two it was really he who was the egoist. She was like a mother to him in her unselfish devotion, but this did not prevent him from speaking as if his shoulders were weighed down by the burden of another precious life bound to his own, and of acting as if this weight of responsibility obliged…

[...] The Jew whom Weininger describes consciously and Svevo perhaps unconsciously is indeed a victim of a psychological disease: living in a society that considers him different and often treats him exceptionally, he either tends to imagine himself more different than he really is, so that he live…

Svevo's heroes all seem to be tormented by an intense lust for self-improvement, spiritual or social, for education, wisdom or learning to better them or their positions; however old, they still think themselves unprepared for the serious business of living. [...]