14 results for '"MORAVIA,A"'

The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following the World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society...

Quando nel 1944 Alberto Moravia tornò a Roma, al seguito delle truppe alleate, era praticamente un autore che ricominciava, anzi cominciava in quello stesso momento. Il romanzo breve "Agostino" fu il...

Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved,...

La ciociara è la storia delle avventure di una madre e una figlia, costrette dal caso a passare un anno nelle prossimità del fronte del Garigliano tra il 1943 e il 1944. Ma La ciociara è anche...

Secrecy and Silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist, a book which made Alberto Moravia one of the world's most read postwar writers. Clerici is a man with everything...

An odyssey through the mind and memory of a washed-up writer, from one of Europe’s most provocative novelists, Nobel Prize winner Peter HandkeMysteriously summoned to a houseboat on the Morava River,...

An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks--who was described in a recent review as "one of the best living writers of English"--has delighted audiences around the world with his...

The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet-the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once...

Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal...

The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth • Rome—metropolis and monument,...

Du nord au sud de l'Europe, de la France à la Suède, de l'Italie à l'Angleterre comme aux Etats-Unis, leurs maisons sont pour les écrivains le lieu de la création. Véritable voyage, coloré et...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, NPR • The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller...