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	Moravia, Alberto - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		MORAVIA, ALBERTO [Moravia, Alberto], 1907-90, Italian novelist born as Alberto Pincherle; husband of Elsa Morante.
		Moravia is considered one of the foremost 20th-century Italian novelists.
		Moravia's characters have lost faith in the values on which moral foundations are based.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-moraviaa1.html (269 words)

	Alberto Moravia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, (November 28, 1907 – September 26, 1990) was one of the leading Italian novelists in the 20th century.
		Alberto Pincherle ("Moravia" is the surname of his father's mother) was born in Via Sgambati of Rome, to a well-off middle-class family.
		Moravia was found dead in the bathroom of his apartment on the Lungotevere, in Rome, in the September 1990.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alberto_Moravia (1446 words)

	Neorealist Authors: Moravia
		Alberto Moravia was born in Rome the 28th November 1907 from Carlo Pincherle, architect and painter, and from the mother of Ancona of the family De Marsanich.
		In 1960 Moravia faces in the character of Dino, protagonist of La noia the theme of the incommunicability, that is the most desolate aspect of the alienation.
		After all Moravia, makes a careful analysis of his characters and he’s interested in the aspects of life and of the society that he represents, but he never arrives to deepen the causes of the phenomena.
	library.thinkquest.org /28490/data/inglese/autori/moravia.htm (2948 words)

	LitWeb.net
		At the age of nine Moravia was stricken with a tubercular infection of the leg bones, which he later considered the most important factor in his early development.
		Moravia's criticism of society in presented on an allegorical level - proletariat is raped by capitalism.
		In 1953 Moravia edited, with Alberto Carocci, Nuovi Argomenti, from 1955 he was the film critic for L'Espresso, and in 1955 he was a State Department lecturer in the United States.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/moravia_alberto.html (1169 words)

	Boston Review
		Moravia sees fiction as a form of knowledge: his aesthetic suggests a creative cross between a doctor and a mechanic, with the abstractness of a metaphysician tossed in.
		And with the fall of the Berlin Wall, Moravia was dismissed as a musty relic of the postwar era, whose meticulous analysis of fascist disaster and alienation was of little interest to a generation that needed footnotes to be reminded of the crimes of Stalin, let alone those of Mussolini.
		Moravia builds his narratives out of a limited number of primal situations; his figures examine, with skepticism and dogged determination, the reasoning that underlies their compulsion toward an imprisoning fantasy.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR26.2/marx.html (2891 words)

	Amazon.ca: Life of Moravia: Books: Alberto Moravia,Alain Elkann,William Weaver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Moravia's autobiography is in the form of an interview between the two writers, but it is more like the film-scripted conversation My Dinner with Andre in its well-thought-out questions and polished answers than an interview in a magazine.
		Moravia's use of internal monologues is extremely clever and effective in conveying Michele's pain in particular.
		Moravia often discusses it in the autobiography; but, just reading the two together, first the novel and then immediately the autobiography, is so much fun and so very enlightening.
	www.amazon.ca /Life-Moravia-Alberto/dp/1883642507 (740 words)

	Alberto Moravia
		Moravia was married to Elsa Morante (1941-1963), who also was a writer, best known for her novel LA STORIA (1974).
		At the age of nine Moravia was stricken with tubercular infection of the leg bones, which he considered the most important factor in his early development.
		Moravia's criticism of society is presented on an allegorical level - proletariat is raped by capitalism, Italy loses her innocence under Fascism.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /moravia.htm (1913 words)

	The Woman of Rome, by Alberto Moravia
		Alberto Moravia, Bertolt Brecht, and Jean Genet are of a family.
		Moravia has magically created a woman with an enveloping personality, one that makes her assume good in those who are least good.
		Moravia is one of those writers we've heard about all of our lives.
	www.ralphmag.org /moraviaZA.html (1773 words)

	Alberto Moravia: A Man of His Times (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Moravia told me that his personal life was total chaos—because of his women I believe—in which the only constant was his literary work.
		For at least the last decade of his life, Alberto Moravia was the dean of Italian literature—a term he however claimed to detest.
		For Moravia, in this novel, it was the bored indifference of the Italian people as a whole that facilitated the birth and 20-year survival of Fascism, the same political indifference that marks Italian society today in the face of a modern form of reactionary extremism.
	www.critiquemagazine.com.cob-web.org:8888 /article/moravia.html (3589 words)

	Moravia - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Moravia, historic region of the Czech Republic, between Bohemia and Slovakia.
		Settled by the Moravians, a Slavic people, at the end of the 6th...
		Moravia, Alberto, pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle (1907-1990), Italian writer, born in Rome.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Moravia.html (62 words)

	Alberto Moravia - Biografia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		All’età di nove anni, infatti, Alberto si ammala di tubercolosi ossea, malattia dagli atroci dolori che lo costringe a letto per cinque anni: i primi tre a casa, e gli ultimi due nel sanatorio Codivilla di Cortina d’Ampezzo.
		Moravia dirigerà la rivista fino all’ultimo: dal ’66 insieme con Carocci e Pasolini, a cui si aggiungeranno Attilio Bertolucci e Enzo Siciliano; mentre a Milano, nel 1982, i direttori della terza serie saranno, oltre a lui, Siciliano e Sciascia.
		Moravia è stato uno dei più grandi romanzieri di tutto il 900.Il suo modo di scrivere incanta,persuade anche il più ignorante.
	www.italialibri.net.cob-web.org:8888 /autori/moraviaa.html (3172 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Roman Tales, by Alberto Moravia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		WHEN Alberto Moravia's complete works were put on the Index in 1952, a close friend and literary colleague visited Moravia and jokingly told him that he had better pack up and leave the country,...
		...WHEN Alberto Moravia's complete works were put on the Index in 1952, a close friend and literary colleague visited Moravia and jokingly told him that he had better pack up and leave the country, since now at last he was officially out in the cold...
		...She also represents a partial solution of Moravia's struggle with his own contradictory terms of instinctively healthy nature and sickly self-doubting intellect-a resolution which opts for the realistic wisdom of the Italian folk as embodied in Adriana, the wise, good, and beautiful whore...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V24I6P90-1.htm (901 words)

	Jim on the Web - Review of Moravia's Time of Indifference
		Mariagrazia and her two children Carla and Michele, both in their early twenties, live in a better part of town, in a nice villa in a big park.
		Moravia paints the extremely selfish and possession-oriented society of the early fascist days he so much resented, with a ban as a result.
		He does so by letting us listen in into quite some internal monologues of all of the characters, to show their careful calculation when they try to bring someone to do something in their own interest.
	jim-on-the-web.com /en/timeoff/books/moravia-timeofindifference.html (500 words)

	Amazon.com: The Conformist: Books: Alberto Moravia,Tami Calliope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Moravia equates the rise of Italian Fascism with the psychological needs of his protagonist for whom conformity becomes an obsession in a life that has included parental neglect, an oddly self-conscious desire to engage in cruel acts, and a type of male beauty which, to Clerici's great distress, other men find attractive.
		Moravia is a lyricist and this prose poem of a novel describes some very hard facts of boyhood during fascist times in Italy, and more.
		Moravia here displays his utter sentimentality with an admixture of arm-chair psychology that is truly laughable....and this is probably his best novel.
	www.amazon.com /Conformist-Alberto-Moravia/dp/1883642655 (1182 words)

	hipsterbookclub: "I'm so fed-up, for me no let-up, a fizzing human bomb:" Alberto Moravia's The Conformist.
		Just finished reading The Conformist by Alberto Moravia; it was published in 1951 (as Il Conformista), and translated into English by Angus Davidson in 1953.
		Moravia is very good at capturing an interminably introverted child and young man and does a very creditable job at presenting the tangled skeins of "tradecraft" for the short space of time that he does so -- enough to cause one a pang of regret that he didn't delve into it more thoroughly.
		Despite a heavy reliance on symbolism (Marcello's office at the ministry of secret police is "at the end of a corridor that led nowhere" [p.
	community.livejournal.com /hipsterbookclub/760694.html (1179 words)

	VQ Spring 2005
		In October 1935 the handsome 28-year-old Italian novelist Alberto Moravia arrived in New York at the Casa Italiana at Columbia University.
		As a distinguished visiting intellectual from Italy, Moravia delivered a lecture on the Italian novel at Columbia, which he repeated at Smith and then at Vassar, coming to campus on Saturday, February 22, 1936.
		At the last minute, Moravia recalled a recent statement that the Italian novel did not exist, and decided to contradict it in his talk that afternoon.
	www.aavc.vassar.edu /vq/spring2005/features/alberto_moravia.html (1515 words)

	Contempt, Alberto Moravia
		Like all of Moravia's novels --- it is a tale that is told with a spare elegance.
		But because it is Moravia, the tale of Ulysses and Penelope and the Odyssey gets intertwined with the tale of Emilia and Moltari.
		I said before (in my review of A Woman of Rome) that Moravia is an anomaly: no other writer in my experience knows to plumb --- simply, wisely --- the heart of woman.
	www.ralphmag.org /AA/moravia.html (989 words)

	Alberto Moravia - Biografia
		Il 26 settembre 1990, alle nove del mattino, Alberto Moravia muore nella sua casa di Roma.
		Qualcuno saprebbe dirmi qualcosa in più su"la vita interiore"di moravia?
		Moravia coniuga splendidamente sociologia e psicologia descrivendo da un lato la crisi di valori e di ideali della società borghese, dall'altro i drammi individuali dei vari personaggi sino a scendere..
	www.italialibri.net /autori/moraviaa.html (3216 words)

	Alberto Moravia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Moravia published his first novel, GLI INDIFFERENTI (1929, Time of Indifference) at the age of 21.
		In the 1930s Moravia travelled in the U.S., Poland China, and other countries.
		Among Moravias major works are AGOSTINO (1944), LA ROMANA (1947), LA CIOCIARA (1957), LA NOIA (1960).
	www.volny.cz /krivka/moraviai.htm (466 words)

	Houssay Bernardo Alberto - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Houssay Bernardo Alberto - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Houssay, Bernardo Alberto (1887-1971), Argentine physiologist whose research into the role of the pituitary gland made a significant breakthrough...
		Both were born in Prague and received MD degrees from the German University of Prague in 1920, the year in which they were married.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Houssay_Bernardo_Alberto.html (114 words)

	TIME.com: "Injustice & Disservice" -- Aug. 11, 1952 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In early 1951, the U.S. Embassy in Rome suggested to Italian Novelist Alberto (The Woman of Rome) Moravia that he should pay a visit to the U.S., where his books are bestsellers.
		Moravia delightedly accepted the suggestion and filed his papers.
		Last May, the embassy announced that Moravia's visa had been denied because of a State Department ruling that he cannot qualify under the U.S. Internal Security (McCarran) Act.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,857279,00.html (477 words)

	Alberto Moravia - Wikipedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Alberto Pincherle wurde als Sohn einer jüdisch-katholischen Familie geboren.
		Im Alter von neun Jahren erkrankte der kleine Alberto an Tuberkulose und verbrachte zwischen 1916 und 1925 seine meiste Zeit in Sanatorien.
		Nach der Landung der Alliierten in Italien und durch die ständige Bedrohung einer Verhaftung durch die Faschisten floh Moravia 1943 mit seiner Ehefrau Elsa Morante in die Berge von Ciociaria.
	de.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Alberto_Moravia (928 words)

	NYRB: Alberto Moravia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Alberto Moravia (1907-1990), the child of a wealthy family, was raised at home because of illness.
		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.
		More by Alberto Moravia from The New York Review of Books.
	www.nybooks.com /nyrb/authors/5828 (131 words)

	Alberto Moravia Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Alberto Moravia is a dominant figure in Italian literary and cultural life in the twentieth century.
		Moravia's appeal to three generations of Italian readers was undeniable: sales of his works eventually made him wealthy--an uncommon phenomenon in Italy where few writers can support themselves solely by their art.
		Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/alberto-moravia-dlb (136 words)

	Personaggi: Alberto Moravia
		Nel 1929 de Libero lo invita a collaborare a "Interplanetario", su cui Moravia pubblica alcune novelle.
		Collabora al primo numero di "Fronte" (1931), la rivista di Scipione e Mazzacurati con un articolo sul romanzo inglese.
		Negli anni Quaranta alcuni articoli su riviste sono firmati con lo pseudonimo di Pseudo, cui Moravia viene costretto dopo la pubblicazione della Mascherata.
	www.scuolaromana.it /personag/moravia.htm (317 words)

	Granta: Alberto Moravia
		Alberto Moravia (1907-1990) published his first novel at the age of twenty-three.
		His books were censored under Mussolini and placed on the Vatican's list of forbidden books.
		After the Second World War he emerged as one of the most admired and influential of twentieth-century Italian writers.
	www.granta.com /authors/42 (46 words)

	Alberto Moravia Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A sickly, lonely child, Moravia began his first novel at 16, and after finding no one to bring it out, self-published "Gli Indifferenti/The Time of Indifference" in 1929.
		After several other attacks on fascism, which made him a marked man by the Mussolini regime, Moravia came into his own after the war, producing prolific tales of Rome and sex.
		Though he wrote directly for the screen on several occasions, Moravia's greatest contribution to the cinema has been his many short stories and novels.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/193105 (217 words)

	Moravia Alberto - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Moravia Alberto - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Besides Pirandello, the best-known modern Italian writer was Alberto Moravia, a prolific author notable for his novels and short stories of...
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	uk.encarta.msn.com /Moravia_Alberto.html (103 words)

	Amazon.com: Life of Moravia: Books: Alberto Moravia,Alain Elkann,William Weaver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Woman of Rome: A Novel (Italia) by Alberto Moravia
		The Time of Indifference: A Novel by Alberto Moravia
		ALAIN ELKANN: Tell me about the birth of Alberto Moravia.
	www.amazon.com /Life-Moravia-Alberto/dp/1883642507 (1254 words)

	NYRB Classics: Boredom
		The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following the World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society.
		In its moral and artistic economy, [Boredom] is perhaps the most successful of all Moravia's works....
		The Moon and the Bonfires is a novel of intense lyricism and tragic import, a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature that has been unavailable to American readers for close to fifty years.
	www.nybooks.com /shop/product?product_id=3 (312 words)

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