by Alberto Moravia · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845206979
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«La ciociara» is the novel by Alberto Moravia published by Bompiani in paperback, within the Tascabili collection, with 308 pages, text in Italian.
The novel follows Cesira, a widowed shopkeeper from Rome, and her daughter Rosetta, who in 1943 flee the German occupation and take refuge in Cesira's native land. Near the Garigliano front they endure nine months of hunger, cold and fear. The arrival of the Allies does not bring the expected liberation: a traumatic violence will mark both forever.
Work originally published in 1957; the action takes place in Italy between 1943 and 1944.
Will appeal to readers of Italian classics and historical fiction about World War II.
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.
