The Woman Of Rome. A Novel

Literature & Fiction

ALBERTO MORAVIA

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Conflicts erupt between Mariagrazia, a woman fearing the passage of years and the loss of her youth, and Carla, her beautiful and sensual daughter, when Mariagrazia's lover can no longer control his passions for Carla

The time of indifference; (Penguin books)

Penguin

Throughout these twenty erotic stories, peopled with a gallery of eccentric individuals, run the recurring themes of violence, sexual yearnings, frustration, boredom, and the bourgeoisie

Erotic Tales (Abacus Books)

Erotica

ABACUS +

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.

The Voyeur

<p>Moravia, Alberto; Tr. By Angus Davidson, Two: A Phallic Novel</p>

Two: A Phallic Novel

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Conjugal Love

"A story of love, obsession, and betrayal from "the most important Italian creative writer [of the twentieth] century."—The Times [London]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. Antonio, the local barber who comes every morning to shave Silvio, sparks off this dangerously combustible situation when Leda accuses him 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.Alberto Moravia earned his international reputation with frank, finely-observed stories of love and sex at all levels of society. In this new English translation of Conjugal Love, he explores an imperiled relationship with his customary unadorned style, psychological penetration, and narrative art.

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Time of Desecration

Which Tribe Do You Belong To?

Secker Warburg

From Publishers Weekly Restricted in scale and with a limited cast, Moravia's old preserve of sexual obsession is occupied in this latest novel by a 35-year-old intellectual, a professor of French literature locked in oedipal combat with his aged but still-vital father, a famous physicist and academic "baron." The father is upheld by the bourgeois establishment, the son a one-time student activist who surrenders, as a protest against private property, all claim to the handsome flat bequeathed to him by his mother. His wife seems to desire the flat; she also desires an extramarital arrangement with the father. The son, for his part, envisions the nuclear explosion of the dome of St. Peter's and the imminent end of the world. When Moravia confines himself to his restless characters, the novel progresses fluidly enough, but he yields far too often to his weakness for conceptual trappings. The father-son disagreements are tiresome, and differing views about the nuclear bomb are not presented with any new drama. But it's gratifying to observe that Moravia, at age 80, has lost none of his engergy and agility. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal The narrator of Moravia's latest novel, a 35-year-old professor of French literature, is walking down the streets of Rome, thinking of an erotic poem by Mallarme, when he sees a young black woman gazing out of her apartment window. At that moment, he becomes fascinated with the woman, with his own fascination, and with the concept of voyeurism literary and literal. His obsession with the subject and with this aspect of his own character leads him (not without irony) to suspect that his wife Silvia is having an affair with his father, a distinguished physics professor who is bedridden from a car accident and in whose apartment the couple lives. This story of love, obsession, and self-discovery is so skillfully wrought and so absolutely absorbing that it may make reading itself seem fraught with voyeur

British & Irish

Secker and Warburg

The Fancy Dress Party (Vintage Signet #1122)

New American Library

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