Complete summary of alberto moravia s the conformist. Secrecy and silence are second nature to marcello clerici, the hero of the conformist, a book which made alberto moravia one of the worlds most read postwar writers clerici is a man with everything under control a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, the hidden power that comes with his secret work for the italian political police during the mussolini. Publication date 1951 publisher new york, farrar, straus and young. Romanzi e racconti di alberto moravia online gratis pdf epub kindle gratis download di italiano 2016. One of italys greatest 20thcentury novelists, alberto moravia 19071990 seems somewhat forgotten these days or only remembered for the several classic films made from his books, such as jean. The book reads well less ponderous than i feared and entertains on the level of period noir.
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His novelles explored matters o modren sexuality, social alienation an existentialism. Clerici is a man with everything under control a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, the hidden power. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. His novels, which include the woman of rome, the conformist, contempt, and two women, have been turned into films by bernardo bertolucci more about alberto moravia. The sociopsychological content of moravia s work was apparent from his first novel, the indifferent ones 1929, which depicted the spiritual vacuity of italian bourgeois youth.
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