Alberto Moravia
Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
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Italian novelist who made existential malaise and sexual politics his whole thing. Gli indifferenti and Il conformista landed him major film adaptations—Godard, Bertolucci, De Sica all came calling.
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Alberto Pincherle, known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti and for the anti-fascist novel Il conformista, the basis for the film The Conformist (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Other novels of his adapted for the cinema are Agostino, filmed with the same title by Mauro Bolognini in 1962; Il disprezzo, filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as Le Mépris ; La noia (Boredom), filmed with that title by Damiano Damiani in…
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