Few people know it, but Italo Svevo lived for over fifteen years in Venice, at the Sacca Serenella on the island of Murano, commuting, a little anonymous and a little dark, between this strip of land surrounded by the lagoon and his native Trieste. His father-in-law Gioacchino Veneziani's father-in-law, Gioacchino Veneziani's father-in-law, had a heavy burden as director of the Murano branch of the large Trieste underwater paint factory, but duty came first.
This long period is marked by hours and hours spent waiting for the chemical preparation to be melted in the furnaces; by his assiduous correspondence with his wife Livia, who remained in Trieste; by nights stolen from sleep to write or reflect; by shrill notes torn from a violin that seemed to mockingly parody the torment of his frustrated soul.

Paolo Puppa reconstructs, starting from the original correspondence of the writer from Trieste, the stay of Ettore Schmitz-Italo Svevo in Murano, giving life to a real monologue of the soul.
Svevo appears there in all his human weakness, torn between the anxiety to write and the duty to work, between the passionate love for his wife and living with an island that is not always a friend.
Only the sunsets in the lagoon, the wandering through the calli, the Venetian festivals know how to make the sensitive eyes of the writer shine, recluse almost in a hermitage surrounded by water.

"Svevo a Venezia" has a preface by Elvio Guagnini, director of the magazine of Swabian studies in Trieste and full professor of Italian literature at the University of Trieste. The full text will be recited by Mario Valgoi at the Conservatory of Trieste with the accompaniment of the pianist Carlo Carratelli.