Letter from James Joyce to Italo Svevo, Paris, 30 January 1924: “Thank you for the novel with the dedication. I have two copies, in fact I have already ordered one from Trieste. I am reading it with great pleasure. Why do you despair? You must know that it is by far your best book”. After the initial failure of Zeno’s Conscience, Joyce advised Svevo to send copies of the novel to the two French critics Valery Larbaud and Benjamin Crémieux, who were to decree its international success”.
> coll. Museo Svevo – Epistolario
