Alberto Moravia

Two Women is a 1958 Italian-language novel by Alberto Moravia. It tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenaged daughter from the horrors of war. When both are raped, the daughter suffers a nervous breakdown. A film based on the novel starred Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi …

Conjugal Love was written in the original Italian, by Alberto Moravia in 1947. It was first translated into English in 1951, and has since a new translation by Marina Harss was published by Other Press in 2007. The novel is written in the first person by a rich Italian dilettante who has gone with his wife to the …

Le Conformiste est un roman d'Alberto Moravia paru en 1951. Il a été adapté au cinéma en 1970 par Bernardo Bertolucci. Portail de la littérature italienne

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 …