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Alberto Moravia
Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached to a young model, examines the complex relations between money, sex, and…
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Thomas Erling Peterson
This study of Alberto Moravia’s writings concentrates on the major novels. It also considers his short stories and non-fiction, especially his Roman tales and essays. Moravia emerges from this study…
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Alberto Moravia’s classic, startling portrait of innocence lost was written in 1942 but rejected by Fascist censors and not published until 1944, when it became a best seller and secured…
Secrecy and silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist. But when he’s ordered to kill his former professor to demonstrate loyalty to the Fascist state…
This collection of erotic short stories examines human desire and explores the boundaries between reality and fantasy. The stories explore Freudian obsessions, the innocence of youth, frustration and man’s addiction…
Moravia is not simply painting the portrait of an age but also coming to grips through his art with the great questions of all ages - the erotic, love, death…
All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous-his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychological complexity and social pretension, his still-striking openness about sex-are evident in…
Alberto Moravia was a major figure in the 20th Century Italian Literature. His novels written on modern sexuality, social self-intimacy, alienation, and existentialism had become the message of neo-realism in…
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Janice M. Kozma
Kozma examines the use of metaphor and simile in the works of the twentieth-century Italian fiction writer Alberto Moravia, whose novels include Gli indiferenti (1929) and La Romana (1947). She…
Toni Maraini
Self-imprisoned in a Parisian cemetery wall, a woman reflects on the savage turmoil of the medieval world.
Silvio is an Italian dilettante and would-be novelist whose ambitions considerably outweigh his talent. He and his wife Leda move to the country so he can devote himself to his…
Michaela-Helga Schiebe
Inhaltsangabe: Einleitung: Viele geistesgeschichtliche, gesellschaftliche oder politische Stroemungen finden ihren Nachhall in der bildenden Kunst und insbesondere der Literatur, denn sie gelten als die sichersten Ausdrucksmoeglichkeiten eines Volkes. Kunst lebt…
Simona Bianconi
Simona Bianconi explores the creative process of writing, its communicative aspects and the traces of the writer himself in his creations, as well as the effect writing has on the…
L'invenzione letteraria pu dare vita a un secondo scrittore, a sua volta all'opera. A sua volta colui che comunica al di l della parola, che si assume l'importante responsabilit della…
