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Alberto Moravia is one of the best known and most widely translated writers to come out of contemporary Italy. This study suggests new ways of reading his fiction in the context of recent works of feminist and cultural theory about gender, the structure of subjectivity and the processes of narrative. It argues that an analysis of Moravia's presentation of contemporary "man" is incomplete without looking at his vision of women. Sharon Wood aims to show this narrative form to be a traditional moralising exploitation of women, the medium for Moravia's own preoccupation with man. Wood's reassessment goes beyond the feminist criticism of the 1970's which dwelt on the context of Moravia's work. She suggests that he is confined by form, this his use of language and gender reflects, rather than challenges, Italian society, and is linked to a political vision that is ultimately reactionary. ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Novels by Alberto Moravia, Novels by Gianrico Carofiglio, Novels by Giorgio Bassani, Novels by Leonardo Sciascia, Novels by Luigi Pirandello, Novels by Rafael Sabatini, Novels by Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum, the Name of the Rose, the Conformist, One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, the Turn, L'esclusa, Scaramouche, Baudolino, Captain Blood, the Sea Hawk, the Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Bellarion the Fortunate, Umberto Eco Bibliography, the Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, to Each His Own, Two Women, Equal Danger, the Day of the Owl, the Island of the Day Before, Involuntary Witness, the Late Mattia Pascal, Gli Indifferenti, the Knight and Death, the Woman of Rome. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Foucault's Pendulum (original title: Il pendolo di Foucault) is a novel by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco. It was first published in 1988; the translation into English by William Weaver appeared a year later. Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah, alchemy and conspiracy theory, so many that critic and novelist Anthony Burgess suggested that it needed an index. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, which has symbolic significance within the novel. Although some believe it refers to the philosopher Michel Foucault, Eco "specifically rejects any intentional reference to Michel Foucault". The plot of Foucault's Pendulum revolves around three friends, Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon, who work for a vanity publisher in Milan. After reading one too many manuscripts about occult conspiracy theories, they decide the...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=160906 ... Read more

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19 short stories set in the poorer parts and slums of Rome and whose heros are the ordinary people - plumbers, washerwomen, thieves, small shopkeepers and prostitutes. Moravia was born in Rome in 1907 and became foreign correspondent for several newspapers in London and Paris. He now lives in Rome and is a well-established writer. ... Read more

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Amazon and dropped balls
After delaying the rest of my order for weeks waiting for this title to arrive to ship it all together, amazon could not supply it for reasons unstated. I would love to review it, if only I had a copy...

Clever stories about common people
Stories about Romans (usually the common class in post WWII Italy)Brutally honest and funny, tragic comedies, and clever little scenarios.His character development is so fantastic that I'm beginning to think it's not fiction at all.I've never read a Moravia short story and felt let down.Bizarre tales (and some are a bit morbid or risque for the time) whether it's tale about the guy who was hired to spy on his friend's wife, or the star-crossed lovers who plan to drive over the girl's cruel aunt, or the guy who tries to have his co-worker killed only to be saved himself by a dirty street hooker.I love it.

The style is racy, the language simple and the images catchy
Except the names of characters and places and few roman words ,the translation seems to be an original English work. The stories are short so that one can read each one in a few minutes and delve for a while sinceevery story is different in its content that says about the characters,theways and means of their living, their thought process and the result oftheir reflecting actions. The stories are about simple humans whose livingis similar to common people around the world. I wondered they resembledTelugu stories, for Telugu being my mother tongue, the very living stylesof the characters and the circumstances barring the advancesand thefreedom of feminine characters. I like 'The Baby' the most among all. Thelanguage is simple but quite expressive, the style racy and the narrationpicturesque. If permitted I would like to translate some of the storiesinto Telugu. ... Read more

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Boys dont cry
Before the second war.A young italian man and a german womanbegan a sexual relationship that seems to be a swingers relation.Thaeslightly graffic relationship is not what it seems.The german woman makes the first moves in the surprising history.The best Moravia you can read.Shocking or surprising.You can also like "lúomo che guarda" END

why boys dont cry?
Just before the second war ,an youngitalian man loking for his way in tha wordlwhat seems to be love with a german woman.It seems to be a swinger thing.She ,most of the time is the acting part in the sexual,slightly gtraffic ,relationship.This cluelessintelectual and antifacist manand his germanlover will shock or surprise you.But you wont bedissapointed.One of the best Moravia you can read.You could also like"l'uomo che guarda",.Also" the country woman",taken tothe screen with Sofia Loren ... Read more

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The fetish, & other stories
This is a splendid book. Short stories of Moravia are of totally different nature from most of the conventional short story writters like O'Henry or Gogol. Moravia deals with human relation - again not to the extent that it crosses the boundaries of relation and flows into the pshycological world of human feelings like Satre. He deals with the polemics of man and woman - mostly trying to manage through the grey background of their daily mandane matters. Little friction often is the source of firest fires destroying family or little frictions which die out after a small flash. What ever the case may be he dscribes it beautifully. Well translations have their own little problemsbut alas I never knew how to read Italian. All the stories have very small canvas and deal with few characters. Some stories are notable like "Insomnia Together" , "All Right" "Family Life". I have not given it full 5 stars as I feel the translations could have been better ... Read more

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Edoardo, ex-left-wing militant turned professor of French, is a voyeur of life and love. Family and other problems haunt him, and he discovers that he has been unable to see for looking. By the Italian author of "Erotic Tales", whose books were banned during the years of fascism. ... Read more

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The best
only the best, it is the master piece of Moravia ... Read more