by Alberto Moravia · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422624882
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«La romana» is the novel by Alberto Moravia published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (460 pages, in Spanish).
Adriana is a young Roman woman, poor and very beautiful, who poses naked for a painter and ends up becoming a prostitute in Mussolini's Rome. The novel interweaves her story with that of Giacomo, a revolutionary student, and portrays the poverty, exploitation and moral hypocrisy of fascist Italy.
The novel was originally published in 1947; this 1988 edition belongs to the Biblioteca de Plata collection from Círculo de Lectores.
For readers of classic fiction and novels with a historical and social backdrop in twentieth-century Italy.
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.
