Alberto Moravia

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Alberto Moravia (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Alberto Moravia was a very prolific writer, with the novel and short story his preferred forms. His most famous work, Gli indifferenti (1929; The Indifferent Ones, 1932; also as The Time of Indifference, 1953), called Italy’s first European novel, is also the first distinctively existential literature of the twentieth century. In addition to penning several translations, plays, and screenplays, Moravia wrote critical essays about drama and the cinema and adapted several of his novels—Il conformista (1951; The...

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