Journalist and writer Cristina Battocletti is the author of a biography of Robert Bazlen (1902–1965) that paints a portrait of this cosmopolitan native of Trieste, who made a major contribution to ensuring the publication of Svevo’s Zeno’s Conscience. Bazlen was a cult figure who founded the publishing house Adelphi, and was also a translator and a writer, although little of his work was published during his lifetime.