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 The Existentialism of Alberto Moravia written by Joan Ross and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 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 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 The woman of Rome written by Alberto Moravia and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1959 with total page 0 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 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: 27 short stories by Albert Moravia.
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 Dark Back of Time written by Javier Marías and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid. Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marías swears to be fiction, but which its "characters"--the real-life dons and professors and bookshop owners who have "recognized themselves"--fiercely maintain to be a roman à clef. With the sleepy world of Oxford set into fretful motion by a world that never "existed," Dark Back of Time begins an odyssey into the nature of identity and of time. Marías weaves together autobiography, a legendary kingdom, strange ghostly literary figures, halls of mirrors, a one-eyed pilot, a curse in Havana, and a bullet lost in Mexico.
Download or read book A Philosophy of Boredom written by Lars Svendsen and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2005-04-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Am account of boredom, something that we have all suffered from, yet actually know very little about.
Download or read book Alberto Moravia written by Thomas Erling Peterson and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Alberto Moravia's writing over a 60-year period concentrates on the major novels, The Time of Indifference, The Women of Rome, Two Women, The Conformist, The Empty Canvas, and The Lie. Moravia's short fiction and non-fiction are also given consideration, especially his Roman tales and essays of Man as an End. What emerges overall is the portrait of an intellectual and craftsman faithful to his interior life and inspiration while active as a public figure in Italian society.
Download or read book Kinski Uncut written by Klaus Kinski and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international bestseller, Klaus Kinski's memoir has become a cult classic, telling the story of his fascinating life, from his tortured, poverty-stricken childhood in prewar Berlin to his rise to international stardom as a film actor. Probably the most outrageous autobiography ever--less a memoir than a hyperbolically pornographic performance piece.--Newsweek. photos.
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 Understanding Hegelianism written by Robert Sinnerbrink and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the ways in which hegelian and anti-Hegelian currents of thought have shaped some of the most significant movements in 20th century European philosophy, particularly the traditions of critical theory, existentialism, Marxism and poststructuralism.
Download or read book Two Adolescents the Stories of Agostino and Luca written by Alberto Moravia and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
