Residenza le 6A

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Augusta

Augusta is the eldest of the sisters, the only one who will immediately accept Zeno's proposal, because she has been in love with him, as she will avow to him later, since before she met him, although she known he does not love her. Squint-eyed, full-bodied and hardly graceful, she owns a wise inner beauty that shines through her healthy and active silhouette. The portrait of a honest, traditional bourgeois woman, a model mother and perfect housekeeper, Augusta reveals herself and improves during their marriage, and she will be a calm and loving partner to Zeno, always ready to offer her help at critical times.

Italo Svevo introduces her with these words:

In the elegant wide living-room ... I found only Augusta reading beside a window ... there, of the four girls with the same initial, one would die, because she concerned me. How could they tell she was beautiful? The first thing you would spot in her was her squint, so remarkable that, when you thought about her after you had not met her for a long time, it would embody her all. Then, she had not very abundant hair, blonde but of a dark shade, with no light, and her whole figure was not ungraceful, though a bit sturdy for her age. In the few moments I remained alone, I thought: "If the others look like this one!"

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Le 6A

• Annetta
• Amalia
• Angiolina
• Ada
• Alberta
• Augusta