by Alberto Moravia · Argos Vergara. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788470179297
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«La romana» is the novel by Alberto Moravia, published by Argos Vergara in hardcover (381 pages, in Spanish).
Adriana, a young Roman woman of humble origins, is driven by necessity and disappointment into prostitution in pre-war Italy. Moravia traces her story with a critical eye and describes the hypocrisy of a society that judges while using women like her.
Work originally published in 1947; this 1980 edition is from the Libros DB collection (no. 24), with a translation by Francisco J. Alcántara.
For readers of Italian classics and novels that portray society and double standards.
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.
