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
Journalists (novel) Journalists (novel) Journalists () is a thriller novel by Russian writer , published in 2013. The novel begins with a bomb eruption at a newspaper, "Moskovskij Bogomolets (Moscow Believer)," which affects the editorial staff killing a famous Moscow journalist. The main character of the novel is a journalist Sergei Ogloedov from the newspaper. The newspaper is very similar to the famous "Moskovskij Komsomolets," and the novel's action follows similar to events in the nineties and early 2000s. The story focuses on the tragic love relationship between Sergei Ogloedov’s and Natasha Guseva, a fling from their time at Moscow State University