Zeno of Citium founded the Stoic school of thought. And Zeno Cosini is the protagonist of the Italo Svevo novel “Confessions ...
On one side, Tolstoy, say; and on the other, Humbert Humbert or Italo Svevo's narrator, Zeno Cosini, or Bertie Wooster. Authorial omniscience, people assume, has had its day, much as that "vast, ...