Moravia, Alberto (Generally Considered a Pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle; See Rebay Excerpt Below) - Moravia, Alberto (Generally Considered a Pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle; See Rebay Excerpt Below) 1907–
Moravia, Alberto (Generally Considered a Pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle; See Rebay Excerpt Below) 1907–
Moravia, an Italian novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, and essayist, is noted for themes of loneliness, alienation, and indifference. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 25-28.)
The thirty-four short stories collected in [Il Paradiso] have several characteristics in common. First there is the fictitious identity of the narrator: the stories are all told (in the first person) by women of more or less the same (moneyed) class. Then the length: they vary from six to nine pages, but most of them are just eight pages long, the tailor-made length most suitable to the newspaper for which they were intended. They all contain something which is more or less incredible, paradoxical or openly monstrous, and they all tend more or less to convey the message that present-day life is soaked in alienation. The idea of Italian society...
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