Product Description: 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...read more

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

Product Description: The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following the World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society. Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached to a young model, examines the complex relations between money, sex, and imperiled masculinity...read more

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: 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 moment when she traded her private dream of home and children for the life of a prostitute...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Chapel Hill 1993 North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages. 8vo., 124pp., wraps. VG.

Product Description: Alberto Moravia is one of the best known and most widely translated writers to come out of contemporary Italy. This study suggests new ways of reading his fiction in the context of recent works of feminist and cultural theory about gender, the structure of subjectivity and the processes of narrative...read more

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

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