Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia (1907-1990), the child of a wealthy family, was raised at home because of illness. He published his first novel, The Time of Indifference, at the age of twenty-three. Banned from publishing under Mussolini, he emerged after World War II as one of the most admired and influential twentieth-century Italian writers.

From the Review

May 6, 1971: An Open Letter to Fidel Castro (letter)

March 26, 1970: Dreaming Up Petronius

Fellini Satyricon directed by Federico Fellini, produced by Alberto Grimaldi

From New York Review Books

Boredom Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached to a young model, examines the complex relations between money, sex, and imperiled masculinity.

Contempt 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.