by Alberto Moravia · Seix Barral · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432222023
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«El conformista» is the novel by Alberto Moravia, published by Seix Barral in hardcover (332 pages, in Spanish).
In Mussolini's fascist Italy, Marcello Clerici, a man obsessed with appearing normal, agrees to collaborate with the secret police and murder a former professor exiled in Paris. The assignment exposes his contradictions and turns the novel into a portrait of conformism, alienation, guilt, and submission to power.
The novel was originally published in 1951 as «Il conformista»; this 1984 edition is part of the Obras Maestras de la Literatura Contemporánea collection, number 40.
For readers of classic fiction and those interested in twentieth-century Italian literature and fiction portraying authoritarianism.
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.
