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- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Alberto Moravia
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 367
- Publisher
- Flammarion
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- French
- ISBN
- 9782080684394
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Alberto Moravia is an Italian journalist, short-story writer, and novelist known for his fictional portrayals of social alienation and loveless sexuality. He was a major figure in 20th-century Italian literature. Moravia contracted tuberculosis of the bone (a form of osteomyelitis usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis) at the age of 8, but, during several years in which he was confined to bed and two years in sanatoriums, he studied French, German, and English; read Giovanni Boccaccio, Ludovico Ariosto, William Shakespeare, and Molire; and began to write. Moravia was a journalist for a time in Turin and a foreign correspondent in London. His first novel, Gli indifferenti (1929; Time o
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