Alberto Moravia
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Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, (November 28, 1907 – September 26, 1990) was one of the leading Italian novelists in the 20th century.
His works explored issues of modern sexuality, alienation, and existentialism. He is best known for his antifascist novel Il Conformista (The Conformist), which was the basis for the 1970 film The Conformist which was directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Other Moravia novels that became films include Il Disprezzo (known as A Ghost at Noon or Contempt) filmed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1963 as Le Mépris (Contempt), and La Ciociara (Two Women, which won the Best Actress award for Sophia Loren) filmed by Vittorio de Sica in 1961.
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- "La cortigiana stanca" (1927)
- Gli indifferenti (Time of Indifference, 1929)
- Le ambizioni sbagliate (1935)
- La bella vita (1935)
- L'imbroglio (1937, novellas)
- I sogni del pigro (1940)
- La mascherata (1941)
- La cetonia (1943)
- L'amante infelice (1943)
- Agostino (Two Adolescents, 1944)
- L'epidemia (1944, short story collection)
- La romana (The Woman of Rome, 1947)
- La disubbidienza (Disobedience, 1947)
- L'amore coniugale (1947, short story collection)
- Il conformista (The Conformist, 1947)
- L'amore coniugale (1949)
- Racconti romani (Roman Tales, 1954)
- Il disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon or Contempt, 1954)
- La ciociara (Two Women, 1957)
- Nuovi racconti romani (1959)
- La noia (The Empty Canvas, 1960)
- L'automa (The Fetish, 1962, collection of short stories)
- L'uomo come fine (1963, essay)
- L'attenzione (1965)
- La vita è gioco (1969)
- Il paradiso (1970)
- Io e lui (Him and Me, 1971)
- A quale tribù appartieni (1972)
- Un'altra vita (1973)
- Al cinema (1975, essays)
- Boh (1976)
- Una vita interiore (1978)
- Impegno controvoglia (1980)
- La cosa e altri racconti (1983, short story collection)
- L'uomo che guarda (1985)
- L'inverno nucleare (1986, essays and interviews)
- La villa del venerdì e altri racconti (1990)
