by Alberto Moravia · Bompiani · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845218774
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«La villa del venerdì» is Alberto Moravia's collection of short stories, published by Bompiani in paperback (217 pages, in Italian).
These stories are marked by a climate of waiting and suspense around the youthful discovery of sexuality, treated as a rite of passage that is often painful and murky. Everyday life intersects with the unexpected turns of existence in these last tales by Alberto Moravia. Includes the famous story «Il vassoio davanti alla porta».
The work belongs to the series «I grandi tascabili Bompiani» (no. 215). The stories were originally published in 1990.
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.
