Download or read book Contempt written by Alberto Moravia and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 psychological complexity and social pretension, his still-striking openness about sex—are evident in this story of a failing marriage. Contempt (which was to inspire Jean-Luc Godard’s no-less-celebrated film) is an unflinching examination of desperation and self-deception in the emotional vacuum of modern consumer society.

Download or read book Two Friends written by Alberto Moravia and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, sensual lover becomes collateral damage in the struggle between these two men. All three of these unfinished stories, found packed in a suitcase after Alberto Moravia’s death, share this narrative premise. But from there, each story unfolds in a unique way. The first patiently explores the slow unfurling of Sergio’s resentment toward Maurizio. The second reveals the calculated bargain Maurizio offers in exchange for his conversion to Sergio’s beloved Communism. And the third switches dramatically to the first person, laying bare Sergio’s conflicted soul. Anyone interested in literature will relish the opportunity to watch Moravia at work, tinkering with his story and working at it from three unique perspectives.

Download or read book Life of Moravia written by Alberto Moravia and published by Steerforth Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moravia, the prolific writer and translator, whose long career spanned periods of radical change in his native Rome, as in Italy, was a great observer of daily life. Italian newspapers frequently asked him for articles on every subject, making him a public voice. This volume takes the form of a year of interviews conducted with the author Elkann during 1989-1990, the last year of Moravia's life. Of interest to students of Italian literature and history and anyone who enjoys reading about writers, this volume provides a personal view of politics in Italy (as a boy, Moravia watched Mussolini's troops enter Rome), the writers from many countries whom he knew, his life, and his writing. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Two Women written by Alberto Moravia and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daughter and her mother fight to survive in Rome during the Second World War. Cesira, a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and Rosetta, a naive teenager of beauty and devout faith.

Download or read book Agostino written by Alberto Moravia and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved, begins hanging around with a group of local young toughs. Though repelled by their squalor and brutality, and repeatedly humiliated for his weakness and ignorance when it comes to women and sex, the boy is increasingly, masochistically drawn to the gang and its rough games. He finds himself unable to make sense of his troubled feelings. Hoping to be full of manly calm, he is instead beset by guilty curiosity and an urgent desire to sever, at any cost, the thread of troubled sensuality that binds him to his mother. 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 the author the first literary prize of his career. Revived here in a new translation by Michael F. Moore, Agostino is poised to captivate a twenty-first-century audience.

Download or read book Conjugal Love written by Alberto Moravia and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To begin with I’d like to talk about my wife. To love means, in addition to many other things, to delight in gazing upon and observing the beloved. --From Conjugal Love When Silvio, a rich Italian dilettante, and his beautiful wife agree to move to the country and forgo sex so that he will have the energy to write a successful novel, something is bound to go wrong: Silvio’s literary ambitions are far too big for his second-rate talent, and his wife Leda is a passionate woman. This dangerously combustible situation is set off when Leda accuses Antonio, the local barber who comes every morning to shave Silvio, of trying to molest her. Silvio obstinately refuses to dismiss him, and the quarrel and its shattering consequences put the couple’s love to the test.

Download or read book The Woman of Rome written by Alberto Moravia and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 1934 written by Alberto Moravia and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1983 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A political tale about an Italian anti-Fascist and the encounter he has with a German girl. The story takes place in 1934 on a boat ride to Capri. It details the relationship between an Italian anti-Fascist - Lucio - and a scared, suicide-seeking German girl. It addresses large philosophical questions like the meaning of life, love and death, through the author's art."--

Download or read book The Empty Canvas written by Alberto Moravia and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Woman of Rome written by Alberto Moravia and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Conformist written by Alberto Moravia and published by Prion (GB). This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrecy and silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist. He's a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, and the hidden power that comes with his secret work for the Italian political police during the Mussolini years. But his perfect life becomes a nightmare when he's ordered to kill his former professor to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state. When he also falls in love with a strange woman, a chain of events occur whose repercussions none could foresee. First published in 1951, The Conformist equates the rise of Italian Fascism with the psychosexual life of a man for whom conformity becomes an obsession after a traumatic experience in his youth. In 1970, director Bernardo Bertolucci turned Moravia's classic into an acclaimed film starring Jean-Louis Tritignant.

Download or read book Erotic Tales written by Alberto Moravia and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Voyeur written by Alberto Moravia and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alain Elkann Interviews written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alain Elkann has mastered the art of the interview. With a background in novels and journalism, and having published over twenty books translated across ten languages, he infuses his interviews with innovation, allowing them to flow freely and organically. Alain Elkann Interviews will provide an unprecedented window into the minds of some of the most well-known and -respected figures of the last twenty-five years.

Download or read book Roman Tales written by Alberto Moravia and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 19 short stories set in the poorer parts and slums of Rome and whose heros are the ordinary people - plumbers, washerwomen, thieves, small shopkeepers and prostitutes. newspapers in London and Paris. He now lives in Rome and is a well-established writer.

Download or read book Command and I Will Obey You written by Alberto Moravia and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Two Women written by Alberto Moravia and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: