מורביה אלברטו, "אגוסטינו"הוצאת כרמל, 2001, תרגום דליה עמית, 127 עמ`פוטוריזם, היתה תנועה ששלטה באומנות האיטלקית בתחילת המאה ה- 20. הפוטוריזם, שמקורו בשירה, התפשט לתחומי אומנות שונים ומגוונים, ביקש לשבור את המסגרות המסורתיות ולהתנער מערכי המוסר הישן.המושג פוטוריזם בא להדגיש את התנועתיות והדינמיות ש...
3.5Leggere Moravia è scoprire sempre un po' di sé, conoscersi inaspettatamente meglio, trovare le giuste parole alle proprie sensazioni che spesso sono intraducibili. La sua scrittura è lucida. Sempre. Ed è proprio questa sua caratteristica che rende i suoi libri ogni volta un vero godimento per ...
The Conformist is a novel by Alberto Moravia published in 1951, telling us about the life of a government official during Italy's fascist period and his desire to be normal. What surprised me about this book is how much I enjoyed it considering it was written by the same guy who wrote The Time ...
The Woman of Rome by Alberto Moravia is a beautiful, rich book. It's like you read and you read and you read, and then suddenly a book comes along and it makes you slow down and really think. It makes you ponder the human condition. Who we are. Why we're here. What we can do about it. The Woman o...
Battista’s offices occupied the entire first floor of an ancient palace, once the abode of a patrician family and now—as so often happens—the business premises of a number of commercial concerns. The great reception-rooms, with their frescoed, vaulted ceilings and stuccoed walls, had been divided...
The first was that I joined the Communist Party. I suppose that every man acts for reasons that are both selfish and disinterested. My disinterested reasons for joining the Party—from now on I’ll call it “the Party,” which is how we refer to it—were not very different from those of countless othe...
One evening, after I had been for eight hours on end in my studio, painting for five or ten minutes at a time and then throwing myself down on the divan and lying there flat, staring up at the ceiling, for an hour or two—all of a sudden, as though at last, after so many feeble attempts, I had had...
But it was not like that. The jealous man suffers from an excessive sense of possessiveness; he suspects continually that some other man wishes to get possession of his woman, and this haunting suspicion gives rise to extravagant imaginings and may even lead him to crime. On the other hand, I suf...