Would you read a book called “Boredom”? Or watch a movie of the same title? Publishers and movie-industry folk have faced those questions. In 1960, Alberto Moravia came out with his novel La noia, i.e ...

Art is its own form of activism, we are reminded by a major new biography of the Italian novelist Alberto Moravia, published by les éditions Flammarion in Paris. Born Alberto Pincherle (his father was ...

In “The Time of Indifference,” Italian filmmaker Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli adapts the 1929 novel by renowned author Alberto Moravia about a once wealthy family in decline but unable to give up the ...

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Italian novelist and short-story writer, ALBERTO MORAVIA achieved success when he was in his early twenties and has come to he regarded as one of the foremost contemporary European novelists. The ...

A GHOST AT NOON (247 pp.)—Alberto Moravia—Farrar, Straus (3.50). When a man who is desperately in love with his wife discovers that she despises him, he naturally tries to do something about it.

TWO WOMEN (339 pp.)—Alberto Moravia—Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($4.95). Novelist Alberto Moravia (The Woman of Rome, Conjugal Love ) has often written about sex as man’s hex. In Two Women he all but ...

Alberto Moravia, edited by Simone Casini, trans. from the Italian by Marina Harss. Other Press, $18.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-59051-336-1 In this unfinished ...

IN ITALY more than in any other Western country, the contemporary writer has had to pass through a searching re-examination of the cultural tradition he inherited. Not joined into a nation until 1870, ...

Alberto Moravia is an artist who was born in 1971. How much does an Alberto Moravia cost? The artist's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 49 USD to ...