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    Inferiority
    Inferiority
    Inferiority
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    Inferiority

    By Italo Svevo

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    In the company of gentlemen:

    A gentleman bets a friend of his that he will be able to cow him into turning over his wallet before the evening is out. In an attempt to win his bet, he and another friend, Baron Squatti, enlist the help of their intended victim's manservant, Giovanni.

    "Reading Svevo," says Peruvian Julio Ramón Ribeyro in his diary, "I have had the impression of reading my own work, not what I'm writing now, but what I would have written if I had been born in Trieste seventy years ago."

    Genre: theater

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFario
    Release dateAug 31, 2011
    ISBN9781465868299
    Inferiority
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    Italo Svevo

    Italian writer, born in Trieste, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1861, and most well known for the novel _La coscienza di Zeno_.

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      Inferiority - Italo Svevo

      Inferiority

      Italo Svevo

      Translated from Italian by John Penuel

      Original title: Inferiorità

      English translation copyright 2011 by John Penuel

      Published by John Penuel at Smashwords

      Table of Contents

      Dramatis Personae

      Scene One

      Scene Two

      Scene Three

      Scene Four

      Scene Five

      Scene Six

      Dramatis Personae

      Alfredo Picchi

      Giovanni, his servant

      Count Alberighi

      Baron Squatti

      A lavishly furnished room in Alfredo Picchi’s villa. Two doors at the back. The one on the right is the way out; the other is the door to Alfredo’s bedroom. To the spectator’s right is the door to Giovanni’s room. A table in the center and several ottomans and chairs. On the table a pitcher of water and several glasses.

      It’s past midnight.

      SCENE ONE

      Giovanni, a well-built man of about thirty, lying on an ottoman, is asleep. The bell rings. Awakened, Giovanni gets up in a bad mood.

      GIOVANNI. What on earth? It’s past midnight. (Goes to the door.)

      SCENE TWO

      Enter Baron Squatti and Count Alberighi. The former, about forty years of age, squat and paunchy, looks to be in his cups; the latter, about twenty-five, a strong and agile sportsman.

      GIOVANNI (with surprise mitigated by respect). Gentlemen!? My master…

      ALBERIGHI. We know. He’s not here. We were with him until just a little while ago. We’re here to pay you a visit, as it turns out. Can you at least offer us a seat? (Throws himself on the nearest ottoman, as Giovanni offers Baron Squatti another.)

      SQUATTI (laughing). Don’t you have anything to offer us?

      ALBERIGHI. Drop it. You’ve had enough to drink.

      SQUATTI. But why? Let’s see what Alfredo drinks at home.

      GIOVANNI (determined). I’m sure signor Picchi would have nothing against my offering you—if you would like—a certain favorite liqueur of his. French, I think. Very good, you know.

      SQUATTI (pleased and smiling). Good answer, good answer. So let’s try this delicious liqueur

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