Italo Svevo Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Joyce's seminal novel "Ulysses". "Confessions of Zeno" never looks outside the narrow confines of Trieste, much like Joyce's work, which rarely left Dublin in the last years of Ireland's time as part of the United Kingdom. Svevo brings a keenly sardonic wit to his observations of Trieste and, in particular, to his hero, an indifferent man who cheats on his wife, lies to his psychoanalyst and is trying to explain himself to his psychoanalyst by revisiting his memories. There is a final connection between Svevo and the character Cosini. Cosini sought psychoanalysis, he said, in
Riley Bloom series Roman Gladiator who's called the Pillar of Doom. For this Riley has to go through a makeover which would make her a teenager she has always wished for. Riley meets Messalina who introduces her to a cute boy named Dacian. Riley Bloom series The "Riley Bloom" series is the spin-off of the fantasy series "The Immortals" by Alyson Noel first published in 2010 in the United States about the afterlife of Riley Bloom, the sister of Ever Bloom (lead character of The Immortals). Riley Bloom is a twelve-year-old girl who was about to become a teenager before she died in