Alberto Moravia, trans. from the Italian by Michael F. Moore. New York Review Books, $14.95 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-1-59017-723-5
Moravia’s novel is neither among the great Italian modernist’s most famous works (The Conformist and Contempt became classic films, by Bernardo Bertolucci and Jean-Luc Godard, respectively), nor, at 100 pages, his longest. But this dreamy, haunting...
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Alberto Moravia, Author, Marina Harss, Translator , trans. by Marina Harss. Other Press $14 (142p) ISBN 978-1-59051-221-0
Italian stylist Moravia (1907–1990) had his novels The Conformist
and Contempt
filmed by Bertolucci and Godard, respectively; this novel, freshly translated by Harss (who provides a short note), was written in 1949. Independently wealthy...
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Alberto Moravia, Author, Alain Elkann, Author, Alain Elkann, Joint Author Steerforth Press $27 (350p) ISBN 978-1-883642-50-1
The first copies of this, Moravia's last book, came off the press in Italy 10 years ago, on the day he died. A unique interview-autobiography, the book offers a series of questions and answers that allowed the renowned Italian novelist to share his...
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Alberto Moravia, Author, Alberto Noravia, Author, Tim Parks, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $18.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-374-28544-9
Restricted in scale and with a limited cast, Moravia's old preserve of sexual obsession is occupied in this latest novel by a 35-year-old intellectual, a professor of French literature locked in oedipal combat with his aged but still-vital father, a
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Alberto Moravia, Author, Tim Parks, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $15.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-374-14868-3
Though it opens with ""The Thing,'' an extremely explicit chronicle of lesbianism and bestiality, this short story collection isn't so much concerned with sex per se as with the ways in which sexuality expresses the essence of character. In ``To an...
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Alberto Moravia, edited by Simone Casini, trans. from the Italian by Marina Harss. Other Press, $18.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-59051-336-1
In this unfinished novella, discovered in a suitcase in 1996, Moravia (1907–1990) offers three strikingly different portraits of a friendship poisoned by political fanaticism, unfolding as three variant drafts of the same story set in Rome after the
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