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 …
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, colleagues who respect him, the hidden power that comes with his secret work for …
To kvinner er en roman av den italienske forfatteren Alberto Moravia. Den er Cesiras fortelling om hennes og dattera Rosettas vanskelige tid under siste del av annen verdenskrig. Cesira eier og driver en liten kolonialbutikk i Trastevere i Roma, og merker lite til krigens gang de første krigsåra. Så begynner det å gå …
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 models naked for a painter, accepts gifts from men, and could never quite identify the …