Further Reading
- Baldanza, Frank, "Mature Moravia," Contemporary Literature IX, No. 4 (Fall 1968): 507-21. (Praises Moravia's artistic restraint, honesty, and range of appeal.)
- Cottrell, Jane E., Alberto Moravia, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1974, 166 p. (Offers a comprehensive introduction to Moravia's fiction.)
- Dego, Giuliano, Moravia, Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1966, 120 p. (Analyzes the social issues raised in Moravia's fiction.)
- Ferdinando, Alfonsi, and Sandra Alfonsi, "An Annotated Bibliography of Moravia Criticism in Italy and in the English-Speaking World (1929-1975)," New York: Garland, 1976, 261 p.
- Freed, Donald, and Joan Ross, The Existentialism of Alberto Moravia, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972, 172 p. (Comprehensive analysis of Moravia's novels and short stories from an existential viewpoint.)
- Golino, Carlo L., "Alberto Moravia," The Modern Language Journal XXXVI, No. 7 (November 1952): 334-40. (Praises Moravia's style and ability as a writer.)
- Hughes, Serge, "Notes on Moravia," The Commonweal LI, No. 15 (20 January 1950): 418-19. (Comments on Moravia as an artist preoccupied with moral problems.)
- Keene, Francis, "Moravia, Moralist," The Nation (New York) CLXXVI, No. 21 (23 May 1953): 438-40. (Defends Moravia as a true moralist and writer devoid of fakery.)
- Kibler, Louis, "The Reality and Realism of Alberto Moravia," Italian Quarterly XVII, No. 65 (Summer 1973): 3-15. (Examines Moravia's sense of realism in his major works.)
- Kozma, Janice M., "Say it with Flowers: Imagistic Representations of Women in Alberto Moravia's Prose," Italica LXX, No. 3 (Autumn 1993): 376-87. (Examines the presentation of women as plants, flowers, food, and animals in Moravia's work.)
- Lancaster, Charles Maxwell, "Fantasy in Moravia's Social and Political Satire," Forum Italicum II, No. 1 (March 1968): 3-12. (Praises Moravia's racconti and romanzi for its insight into the spiritual vacuum of contemporary man.)
- Lewis, R. W. B., "Alberto Moravia: Eros and Existence," The Picaresque Saint, pp. 36-56. London: Lippincott, 1956. (Views the sexual perspective in Moravia's fiction as honorable.)
- Pacifici, Sergio J., "The Fiction of Alberto Moravia: Portrait of a Wasteland," Modern Language Quarterly XVI, No. 1 (March 1955): 68-77. (Asserts the value of viewing Moravia's work as an ever-continuing whole and defends the writer against critical attack concerning his frequent usage of like themes.)
- Peterson, Thomas Erling, Alberto Moravia, New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996, 170 p. (Comprehensive critical introduction to the life and work of Moravia.)
- Rebay, Luciano, Alberto Moravia, Columbia Series on Modern Writers. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970, 48 p. (Concise introduction to Moravia's major novels and short stories up to The Lie.)
- Rolo, Charles J., "Alberto Moravia," Atlantic Monthly CXCIV, No. 2 (February 1955): 69-74. (Praises Moravia as a superlative craftsman in the tradition of classical tragedy.)
- Ross, Alan, "Drag," London Magazine (September 1975): 109-11. (Notes the indifference of Moravia's characters in his works.)
- Slaymaker, William, "Holograms of Humanity: The Negative Reality of Alberto Moravia's Postwar Novels," South Atlantic Review XLIX, No. 2 (May 1984): 80-95. (Notes the positive elements in Moravia's dark portraits of human lives.)
- Warren, Robert Penn, "Moravia, a Modern with a Long Literary History," Chicago Tribune (29 January 1950): 6. (Comments on Moravia as a modern writer in the western literary tradition.)
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