IN 1929, THE FIFTH YEAR of the Fascist era and the twenty-first year of Alberto Moravia's life, the Italian literary world was stunned by the appearance of his first novel, The Time of Indifference. It was a deceptively simple story - five characters, the events of a few days, the intrigues of families and lovers. The place is Rome. The central figure is Michele, a young man in confused but furious rebellion against the emptiness of bourgeois life. His father is dead; his mother, Mariagrazia, desperately clings to her bored lover, Leo; his sister has no hope of marriage or career and bleakly prepares to give herself to Leo as well. A frequent visitor is Leo's former lover, Lisa, ostensibly Mariagrazia's friend, a woman who feels she is in the final late bloom before age destroys beauty. She longs to make Michele her lover, but he is bored and disgusted by her pretenses, her vanity, her desperation. All five are cast loose on the sea of modern life - obsessed with what they want, what they feel they are owed, the wrongs that have been done them, their loneliness. What Moravia destroys forever in this pitiless novel is the illusion that a world of ever-growing material comfort can ever feed the human soul.

Product Description: CUENTOS ROMANOS

Trouble is the result when Sylvio, a wealthy Italian dilettante with literary aspirations, and his beautiful wife, Leda, move to the country and agree to forgo sex to give Silvio the energy to write a successful novel, especially when Antonio, the local barber, is thrown into the combustible mix. Reprint.

Frustrated by his work as a screenwriter, Molteni becomes convinced his wife, Emilia, no longer loves him and inadvertently does his best to make this fear come true

Dino, a failed artist consumed by boredom, finds his life revitalized in an obsession with a young model, whose life he tries unsuccessfully to control

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Marcello hides his feelings of guilt for a murder he committed as a child and attempts to conform to society through marriage and a career in the Fascist party

Marcello hides his feelings of guilt for a murder that he committed as a child and attempts to conform to society through marriage and a career in the Fascist party

Product Description: Il primo folgorante capolavoro di Alberto Moravia pubblicato nel 1929. Il fascismo eleva l'insidia moderna dell'"indifferenza a" condizione esistenziale assoluta.L'edizione ebook non contiene gli apparati critici dell'edizione Tascabili Bompiani.

Product Description: A first-person account of a rather ordinary married man trapped in a domestic triangle with his father and his wife. A powerful novel of social satire, black comedy and first-rate entertainment.

Throughout these twenty erotic stories, peopled with a gallery of eccentric individuals, run the recurring themes of violence, sexual yearnings, frustration, boredom, and the bourgeoisie

Product Description: Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona . 18 cm. 348 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'El Ave Fénix', numero coleccion(20). Moravia, Alberto 1907-1990. La ciociara. Traducción del italiano de Domingo Pruna ...read more

Lucio, a young man tempted by thoughts of suicide, travels to Capri in order to sort out his life and falls in love with a young German woman

Product Description: Book by Moravia, Alberto

Product Description: FIRST PUBLISHED in English in 1958, Two Women is a compassionate yet forthright narrative of simple people struggling to survive in war. The two women are Cesira, a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and her daughter Rosetta, a naive teenager of haunting beauty and devout faith...read more