Life Of Moravia

Author : Alberto Moravia,Alain Elkann
Publisher : Steerforth Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015050329476

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Life of Moravia by Alberto Moravia,Alain Elkann Pdf

Moravia, the prolific writer and translator, whose long career spanned periods of radical change in his native Rome, as in Italy, was a great observer of daily life. Italian newspapers frequently asked him for articles on every subject, making him a public voice. This volume takes the form of a year of interviews conducted with the author Elkann during 1989-1990, the last year of Moravia's life. Of interest to students of Italian literature and history and anyone who enjoys reading about writers, this volume provides a personal view of politics in Italy (as a boy, Moravia watched Mussolini's troops enter Rome), the writers from many countries whom he knew, his life, and his writing. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Alberto Moravia
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590514214

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Two Friends by Alberto Moravia Pdf

In this set of novellas, a few facts are constant. Sergio is a young intellectual, poor and proud of his new membership in the Communist Party. Maurizio is handsome, rich, successful with women, and morally ambiguous. Sergio’s young, sensual lover becomes collateral damage in the struggle between these two men. All three of these unfinished stories, found packed in a suitcase after Alberto Moravia’s death, share this narrative premise. But from there, each story unfolds in a unique way. The first patiently explores the slow unfurling of Sergio’s resentment toward Maurizio. The second reveals the calculated bargain Maurizio offers in exchange for his conversion to Sergio’s beloved Communism. And the third switches dramatically to the first person, laying bare Sergio’s conflicted soul. Anyone interested in literature will relish the opportunity to watch Moravia at work, tinkering with his story and working at it from three unique perspectives.

Author : Alberto Moravia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Italian fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015005972776

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Two Women by Alberto Moravia Pdf

A daughter and her mother fight to survive in Rome during the Second World War. Cesira, a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and Rosetta, a naive teenager of beauty and devout faith.

Author : Alberto Moravia
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635421620

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Conjugal Love by Alberto Moravia Pdf

To begin with I’d like to talk about my wife. To love means, in addition to many other things, to delight in gazing upon and observing the beloved. --From Conjugal Love When Silvio, a rich Italian dilettante, and his beautiful wife agree to move to the country and forgo sex so that he will have the energy to write a successful novel, something is bound to go wrong: Silvio’s literary ambitions are far too big for his second-rate talent, and his wife Leda is a passionate woman. This dangerously combustible situation is set off when Leda accuses Antonio, the local barber who comes every morning to shave Silvio, of trying to molest her. Silvio obstinately refuses to dismiss him, and the quarrel and its shattering consequences put the couple’s love to the test.

Author : Michael Miller
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804776523

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Rabbis and Revolution by Michael Miller Pdf

The Habsburg province of Moravia straddled a complicated linguistic, cultural, and national space, where German, Slavic, and Jewish spheres overlapped, intermingled, and sometimes clashed. Situated in the heart of Central Europe, Moravia was exposed to major Jewish movements from the East and West, including Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment), Hasidism, and religious reform. Moravia's rooted and thriving rabbinic culture helped moderate these movements and, in the case of Hasidism, keep it at bay. During the Revolution of 1848, Moravia's Jews took an active part in the prolonged and ultimately successful struggle for Jewish emancipation in the Habsburg lands. The revolution ushered in a new age of freedom, but it also precipitated demographic, financial, and social transformations, disrupting entrenched patterns that had characterized Moravian Jewish life since the Middle Ages. These changes emerged precisely when the Czech-German conflict began to dominate public life, throwing Moravia's Jews into the middle of the increasingly virulent nationality conflict. For some, a cautious embrace of Zionism represented a way out of this conflict, but it also represented a continuation of Moravian Jewry's distinctive role as mediator—and often tamer—of the major ideological movements that pervaded Central Europe in the Age of Emancipation.

Author : Alberto Moravia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1404226813

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The Woman of Rome by Alberto Moravia Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004392878

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The Fall of Great Moravia by Anonim Pdf

This volume focuses on a nobleman’s grave found in a ninth-century building near Pohansko, an important centre of Great Moravia, to reconsider the wider frameworks of Moravian power, society, and culture.

Author : Alberto Moravia
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590174845

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Contempt by Alberto Moravia Pdf

Contempt is a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European literature. All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous—his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychological complexity and social pretension, his still-striking openness about sex—are evident in this story of a failing marriage. Contempt (which was to inspire Jean-Luc Godard’s no-less-celebrated film) is an unflinching examination of desperation and self-deception in the emotional vacuum of modern consumer society.

Author : Alberto Moravia
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374526511

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Erotic Tales by Alberto Moravia Pdf

Author : Alberto Moravia
Publisher : Farrar Straus Giroux
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0374526540

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Two Adolescents by Alberto Moravia Pdf

Two novels by Alberto Moravia display his gifts as a teller of stories sharp with characterization and deep understanding. Agostino is the story of a sensitive, cloistered boy who, beyond all sense of proportion, loves and idolizes his youthful widowed mother. The shock of finding he is not the center of his mother's universe is more than Agostino can stand. In an instinctive fumbling effort to gain self-respect and values, Agostino joins a gang of older boys who derisively and callously supply him with a quick and drastic sexual education. Agostino finds he has won knowledge without wisdom; and in the words of Moravia. "He has lost his first estate without having succeeded in winning another." Luca is more sophisticated, knowing and introspective. When his active mind questions the conventions and routine of everyday life he comes gradually to the conclusion that life is a monstrous conspiracy -- a plot to make one conform at the expense of one's soul. His answer is a complete negation of the pattern of living -- an austere and adolescent reaction that leads him, unwittingly to the brink of death itself, and from which only the purge of violent illness and an unexpected romance save him, mentally and physically, and show him the way to maturity.

Author : Alberto Moravia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:230683997

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The Woman of Rome by Alberto Moravia Pdf

Author : Ondřej Schmidt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004407893

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John of Moravia between the Czech Lands and the Patriarchate of Aquileia (ca. 1345–1394) by Ondřej Schmidt Pdf

This book offers a critical biography of John of Moravia, illegitimate member of the Luxembourg dynasty, provost of Vyšehrad, bishop of Litomyšl and eventually patriarch of Aquileia († 1394), in the wider context of the Czech and Italian history.

Author : Livia Rothkirchen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803205024

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The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia by Livia Rothkirchen Pdf

Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem “We were both small nations whose existence could never be taken for granted,” Vaclav Havel said of the Czechs and the Jews of Israel in 1990, and indeed, the complex and intimate link between the fortunes of these two peoples is unique in European history. This book, by one of the world’s leading authorities on the history of Czech and Slovak Jewry during the Nazi period, is the first to thoroughly document this singular relationship and to trace its impact, both practical and profound, on the fate of the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia during the Holocaust. Livia Rothkirchen provides a detailed and comprehensive history of how Nazi rule in the Czech lands was shaped as much by local culture and circumstances as by military policy. The extraordinary nature of the Czech Jews’ experience emerges clearly in chapters on the role of the Jewish minority in Czech life; the crises of the Munich agreement and the German occupation, the reaction of the local population to the persecution of the Jews, the policies of the London-based government in exile, the question of Jewish resistance, and the special case of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto. The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia is based on a wealth of primary documents, many uncovered only after the 1989 November Revolution. With an epilogue on the post-1945 period, this richly woven historical narrative supplies information essential to an understanding of the history of the Jews in Europe.

Author : Alberto Moravia
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : English fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015005123412

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1934 by Alberto Moravia Pdf

Author : Alberto Moravia
Publisher : Secker & Warburg
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015062115475

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The Two of Us by Alberto Moravia Pdf