by Alberto Moravia · Primera Plana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788481300130
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«Agostino» is the short novel by Alberto Moravia, published by Primera Plana in paperback (96 pages, in Spanish).
During a summer on the Italian coast, an adolescent discovers that his mother has a sentimental life of her own and begins to see her in a new light. The loss of innocence, the fascination, and the rejection provoked by his new acquaintances shape a story about the end of childhood and the construction of identity.
This copy is part of the Grandes Autores collection. Biblioteca de Literatura Universal, volume 15.
For readers of classic fiction and coming-of-age novels, interested in twentieth-century Italian literature; recommended for ages 12 and up.
Alberto Pincherle, known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti and for the anti-fascist novel Il conformista, the basis for the film The Conformist (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Other novels of his adapted for the cinema are Agostino, filmed with the same title by Mauro Bolognini in 1962; Il disprezzo, filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as Le Mépris ; La noia (Boredom), filmed with that title by Damiano Damiani in 1963 and released in the US as The Empty Canvas in 1964 and La ciociara, filmed by Vittorio De Sica as Two Women (1960). Cédric Kahn's L'Ennui (1998) is another version of La noia.
