biography
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Moravia, Alberto
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pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle
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pronunciation:
[morayvia]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1907–90)
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| biography:
| Novelist and short-story writer, born in Rome, Italy. He became a journalist, travelled extensively, and lived for a time in the USA. His first novel was a major success, Gli indifferenti (1929, trans The Time of Indifference), portraying in a fatalistic way the preoccupation with sex and money of bourgeois Roman society. His work is a bitter study of the moral crisis of Italian society, drawing on existentialism and psychoanalysis. Later works include La disubbidienza (1948, Disobedience), Racconti romani (1954, Roman Tales), and La Vita Interiore (1978, trans Time of Desecration). |
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