by Alberto Moravia · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422647614
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«La mujer leopardo» is Alberto Moravia's contemporary fiction novel, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (174 pages, in Spanish).
Lorenzo, an Italian journalist, and his wife Nora have an apparently happy relationship. A trip to Gabon changes the balance: Nora's frankness about the attraction she feels for another man unleashes Lorenzo's jealousy. The novel portrays a marital crisis marked by misunderstanding and the impossibility of possessing love.
Translated from the Italian by Carlos Manzano, with an epilogue by Enzo Siciliano. The original was published in 1991 as «La donna leopardo».
For readers of contemporary fiction and Italian narrative, interested in a short novel by Moravia.
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.
