Download or read book Two Adolescents written by Alberto Moravia and published by Farrar Straus Giroux. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two novels by Alberto Moravia display his gifts as a teller of stories sharp with characterization and deep understanding. Agostino is the story of a sensitive, cloistered boy who, beyond all sense of proportion, loves and idolizes his youthful widowed mother. The shock of finding he is not the center of his mother's universe is more than Agostino can stand. In an instinctive fumbling effort to gain self-respect and values, Agostino joins a gang of older boys who derisively and callously supply him with a quick and drastic sexual education. Agostino finds he has won knowledge without wisdom; and in the words of Moravia. "He has lost his first estate without having succeeded in winning another." Luca is more sophisticated, knowing and introspective. When his active mind questions the conventions and routine of everyday life he comes gradually to the conclusion that life is a monstrous conspiracy -- a plot to make one conform at the expense of one's soul. His answer is a complete negation of the pattern of living -- an austere and adolescent reaction that leads him, unwittingly to the brink of death itself, and from which only the purge of violent illness and an unexpected romance save him, mentally and physically, and show him the way to maturity.
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 Two Adolescents written by Alberto Moravia and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 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 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 Twentieth century Italian Literature in English Translation written by Robin Healey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.
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:
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 Time of Desecration written by Alberto Moravia and published by Farrar Straus Giroux. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Adolescents and Time written by Alberto Moravia and published by Signet. This book was released on 1960-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The fancy dress party written by Alberto Moravia and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation written by Robin Healey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey’s Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.
Download or read book The Hopkins Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Freeman written by John Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog of Reprints in Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prisoners of Hope written by H. Stuart Hughes and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eminent cultural historian H. Stuart Hughes examines the works of Italo Svevo, Alberto Moravia, Carlo Levi, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, and Giorgio Bassani--six Italian prose writers of Jewish or part-Jewish origin--and gracefully shows how these writers combine in various measures their ancestral Jewish heritage with recent experiences of antisemitic persecution.
Download or read book Time written by Briton Hadden and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Youth in a Changing Society written by Fred Milson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-02 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1972, Youth in a Changing Society examines the ‘youth problem’, dealing with questions of alienation, drugs, juvenile crime, protest, the social cultural position of young people in Britain, and suggests a new way of thinking which should promote greater understanding of the relationships between the generations. The author, who is a leading authority in the area of youth and their activities, proposes ways in which social and educational agencies may put this understanding to practical use by creating a constructive relationship between the generations and between youth and our society. Dr Milson uses illustrative material from British and international sources and his account should be of interest to a wide audience.
