by Alberto Moravia · Plaza & Janés, Colección Novelistas del Día, 1984, Barcelona. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401304026
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«La cosa y otros relatos» is a collection of stories by Alberto Moravia, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
The stories probe erotic psychology through presences and absences, figures that appear and disappear like ghosts whose origin and name the narrator prefers not to reveal. With a meticulous eye and a mordant tone, Moravia turns eros into a source of suffering and a reflection on the human heart.
The work was originally published in Italian as 'La cosa e altri racconti' in 1983; the translation is by Juan Moreno and belongs to the Novelistas del Día collection.
For readers of twentieth-century Italian fiction interested in stories with psychological and erotic undertones.
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.
