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Alberto Moravia


Born
in Via Sgambati, Rome, Italy
November 28, 1907

Died
September 26, 1990

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
James Joyce, Dostoevsky, Stendhal ...more


Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, was one of the leading Italian novelists of the twentieth century whose novels explore matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism. He was also a journalist, playwright, essayist and film critic.
Moravia was an atheist, his writing was marked by its factual, cold, precise style, often depicting the malaise of the bourgeoisie, underpinned by high social and cultural awareness. Moravia believed that writers must, if they were to represent reality, assume a moral position, a clearly conceived political, social, and philosophical attitude, but also that, ultimately, "A writer survives in spite of his beliefs". ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 48,898 ratings · 4,266 reviews · 512 distinct works • Similar authors
Gli indifferenti
3.73 avg rating — 10,617 ratings — published 1929 — 2 editions
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Contempt
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3.95 avg rating — 5,927 ratings — published 1954 — 2 editions
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Boredom
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3.87 avg rating — 5,436 ratings — published 1960
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La ciociara
4.08 avg rating — 3,834 ratings — published 1957 — 30 editions
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Agostino
3.49 avg rating — 4,138 ratings — published 1945 — 15 editions
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The Conformist
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3.98 avg rating — 3,472 ratings — published 1951
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The Woman of Rome
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3.84 avg rating — 3,280 ratings — published 1947 — 187 editions
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Roman Tales
3.93 avg rating — 1,118 ratings — published 1954 — 11 editions
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Conjugal Love
3.60 avg rating — 868 ratings — published 1943 — 91 editions
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The Voyeur
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“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”
― Alberto Moravia
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“And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.”
― Alberto Moravia, The Woman of Rome
tags: deception, fascination, love, men, monster, scorned, understanding, women
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“You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.”
― Alberto Moravia, Boredom
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