by Alberto Moravia · El País · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489669291
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«La romana» is the Italian novel by Alberto Moravia, published by El País in hardcover (525 pages, in Spanish).
Originally published in 1947, the narrative is set in Rome during the Ethiopian war and follows a young woman who, marked by poverty and the contradictions of her environment, ends up moving in a world of prostitution and deceit. Moravia uses her gaze to speak of morality, identity and the search for happiness, with a female character full of vitality and affection.
This edition belongs to the Clásicos del siglo XX collection (number 9) and includes the translation by Francisco Ayala.
For readers of the Clásicos del siglo XX collection and of European fiction, particularly those interested in Italian literature and contradictory female characters.
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.
