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Secrecy and Silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist, a book which made Alberto Moravia one of the world’s most read postwar writers. Clerici is a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, … more

Contempt is a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European literature. All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous—his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychologi… more

Vi sono dei libri fondamentali che dovreste assolutamente conoscere per evitare di fare brutte figure durante una conversazione sul lavoro, in società oppure a scuola e non avete ancora avuto “il tempo di leggere”?Ecco il “Pronto Intervento… more

Chaque volume de la collection Fiches de lecture d’Encyclopædia Universalis présente une œuvre clé de la littérature ou de la pensée mondiales. Sous une forme concise et dans un langage direct, chaque fiche : - rappelle les circonstances de… more

The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society. Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pa… more

In this set of novellas, a few facts are constant. Sergio is a young intellectual, poor and proud of his new membership in the Communist Party. Maurizio is handsome, rich, successful with women, and morally ambiguous. Sergio’s young, sensua… more

Chaque volume de la collection Fiches de lecture d’Encyclopædia Universalis présente une œuvre clé de la littérature ou de la pensée mondiales. Sous une forme concise et dans un langage direct, chaque fiche : - rappelle les circonstances de… more

The glitter and cynicism of Rome under Mussolini provide the background of what is probably Alberto Moravia’s best and best-known novel — The Woman of Rome. It’s the story of Adriana, a simple girl with no fortune but her beauty who model… more