by Alberto Moravia · Orbis · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475300733
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«La Romana» is the novel by Alberto Moravia published by Orbis in hardcover (403 pages, in Spanish).
In Mussolini's Rome, Adriana, a poor and very beautiful girl, ends up working as a prostitute. Moravia interweaves her story with that of the student Giacomo, the policeman Astarita and the criminal Sonzogno, and through them portrays the corruption, hypocrisy and moral decay of fascist society.
The novel was originally published in 1947; this edition, from 1982, is part of the Historia Universal de la Literatura collection (no. 29), with a translation by Francisco J. Alcántara.
A read for fans of twentieth-century Italian fiction and European literary classicism.
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.
