In “The Time of Indifference,” Italian filmmaker Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli adapts the 1929 novel by renowned author Alberto Moravia about a once wealthy family in decline but unable to give up the ...

Art is its own form of activism, we are reminded by a major new biography of the Italian novelist Alberto Moravia, published by les éditions Flammarion in Paris. Born Alberto Pincherle (his father was ...

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi has been cast as a morally and economically bankrupt matron in Italian director Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli’s movie adaptation of “The Time of Indifference,” author Alberto ...

IN ITALY more than in any other Western country, the contemporary writer has had to pass through a searching re-examination of the cultural tradition he inherited. Not joined into a nation until 1870, ...

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BITTER HONEYMOON (221 pp.)—Alberto Moravia—Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($3.50). The books and stories of Italy’s Alberto Moravia are battlegrounds, the troops men and women. No other living writer can ...

COMMAND, AND I WILL OBEY YOU by Alberto Moravia translated by Angus Davidson Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $5.50 “Good writers are monotonous, like good composers,” Alberto Moravia once told an interviewer ...

Two ADOLESCENTS (268 pp.)—Alberto Moravia—Farrar, Straus ($2.75). In the postwar U.S. boom in Italian fiction, 42-year-old Alberto Moravia has already won a bright place for himself with The Woman of ...