"Everyone felt his own beloved person threatened," notes the narrator of Svevo's sarcastic tale of a bungling murderer—an underemployed porter known derisively as "il signore" by his equally down-at-heel friends—on the loose in the streets of Trieste. "L'assassinio di via Belpoggio" was first published in installments in 1890 and was Svevo's first major story. Genre: short story Words: 9,014 Date of English translation: 2011