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Alberto Moravia

Works by Alberto Moravia

by Alberto Moravia
Translated by T Parks
Original title: L’uomo che guarda

This is the story of a ‘man who lives through his eyes’. On the one hand it’s a wry exploration of the mechanics of a certain dimension of the erotic, (more...)

A Time of Desecration [Buy Direct]

by Alberto Moravia
Translated by A Davidson
Original title: La vita interiore

Erotic Tales [Buy Direct]

by Alberto Moravia
Translated by T Parks
Original title: La cosa ed altri racconti

Written late in his career (late in his life in fact), Moravia’s Erotic Tales seem at first to be exercises in writing that use the erotic as a peg — the exercises of an experienced master-narrator, playfully executed and highly readable. Some of the stories, though, (more...)

The Conformist [Buy Direct]

by Alberto Moravia
Translated by Angus Davidson
Original title: Il conformista

After a dark and troubled event in his childhood, a collision between sexuality and violence, the protagonist of The Conformist Marcello Clerici wants to have a perfectly normal adult life, one in keeping with established morality. His aim is to become like others, (more...)

The Time of Indifference [Buy Direct]

by Alberto Moravia
Translated by A Davidson
Original title: Gli indifferenti

Two Women [Buy Direct]

by Alberto Moravia
Original title: La ciociara

Paradise and Other Stories

by Alberto Moravia
Translated by A. Davidson
Original title: Paradiso

The Woman of Rome [Buy Direct]

by Alberto Moravia
Translated by Lydia Holland
Original title: La romana

Adriana tells her own story: the story of loss of innocence and subsequent downfall. Her beauty and her natural predisposition for a simple, tranquil life are circumscribed by the corrupt environment that surrounds her and that not even her love for Gino, a driver whom she hopes to marry, (more...)

Lady Godiva & Other Stories [Buy Direct]

by Alberto Moravia
Translated by A Davidson
Original title: Un altra vita

Voice of the Sea [Buy Direct]

by Alberto Moravia
Translated by A.Davidson
Original title: Boh

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