by Alberto Moravia · Bompiani · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845246241
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Gli indifferenti is the first novel by Italian writer Alberto Moravia, published in 1929. The story is set in Fascist Rome in the 1920s and describes the moral decay of a bourgeois family. The characters, unable to truly hate or love, are condemned to an indifference that prevents them from changing their hopeless lives. Moravia paints with precision the affluent bourgeois environment, from which he himself came, at a time of moral decay.
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.
