Moravia, Alberto
Moravia, Alberto (pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle, 1907–90),Italian novelist, playwright and essayist. He achieved immediate success with his first novel Gli indifferenti (The Time of Indifference, 1929). The popularity of his novels—many of which were made into films—has somewhat obscured the merits of his remarkable production of short stories and tales. Some of the very best, written between 1935 and 1945, now appear in Racconti surrealistici e satirici (Surrealistic and Satirical Tales, 1982). Here the abstract, the metaphysical, the absurd, the grotesque, and the fantastic are used to pose important questions for the reader to ponder. Whether he draws sketches of Roman life, as he does in Racconti romani (Roman Tales, 1954), Nuovi racconti romani (More Roman Tales, 1959), or writes tales of sex and eroticism as he does in Il paradiso (Paradise and Other Stories, 1971), and...
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