Alberto Pincherle (1907-11-28)28 November 1907 Rome, Italy
Died
26 September 1990(1990-09-26) (aged 82) Rome, Italy
Resting place
Campo Verano, Rome
Pen name
Alberto Moravia
Occupation
Novelist, journalist, playwright, essayist, film critic
Notable works
Gli indifferenti (Time of Indifference, 1929) Il conformista (The Conformist, 1947) Racconti romani (Roman Tales, 1954) La ciociara (Two Women, 1957)
Notable awards
Strega Prize (1952) Premio Marzotto (1957) Viareggio Prize (1961) Premio Mondello (1982)
Spouse
Elsa Morante
(m. 1941; died 1985)
Carmen Llera
(m. 1986)
Partner
Dacia Maraini (1962–1978)
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Alberto Pincherle (Italian:[alˈbɛrtoˈpiŋkerle]; 28 November 1907 – 26 September 1990), known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia (US: /moʊˈrɑːviə,-ˈreɪv-/moh-RAH-vee-ə, -RAY-,[1][2][3]Italian:[moˈraːvja]), 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 (The Time of Indifference 1929) and for the anti-fascist novel Il conformista (The Conformist 1947), 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 (A Ghost at Noon or Contempt), filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as Le Mépris (Contempt 1963); 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.
Moravia once remarked that the most important facts of his life had been his illness, a tubercular infection of the bones that confined him to a bed for five years and Fascism because they both caused him to suffer and do things he otherwise would not have done. "It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will."[4] Moravia was an atheist.[5] His writing was marked by its factual, cold, precise style, often depicting the malaise of the bourgeoisie. It was rooted in the tradition of nineteenth-century narrative, underpinned by high social and cultural awareness.[6] Moravia believed that writers must, if they were to represent reality, ‘a more absolute and complete reality than reality itself’, "assume a moral position, a clearly conceived political, social, and philosophical attitude" but also that, ultimately, "A writer survives in spite of his beliefs".[7] Between 1959 and 1962 Moravia was president of PEN International, the worldwide association of writers.
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Alberto Pincherle (Italian: [alˈbɛrto ˈpiŋkerle]; 28 November 1907 – 26 September 1990), known by his pseudonym AlbertoMoravia (US: /moʊˈrɑːviə, -ˈreɪv-/...
1941. In the same year, she married fellow novelist and film critic AlbertoMoravia. In 1942 she wrote her first children's book, Le Bellissime avventure...
with Cesare Zavattini, based on the 1957 novel of the same name by AlbertoMoravia. The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown and...
Misguided Lives (in English, 1989) Vita di Moravia (with AlbertoMoravia, 1990, new ed. 2000) – Life of Moravia (in English, 2001) Rotocalco (novel, 1991)...
as Contempt or A Ghost At Noon, is an Italian existential novel by AlbertoMoravia that came out in 1954. It was the basis for the 1963 film Le Mépris...
cinema" by Film4. His 1970 film The Conformist, an adaptation of the AlbertoMoravia novel, is considered a classic of international cinema, and was nominated...
dubber Giuseppe Rinaldi and the text was written by Italian novelist AlbertoMoravia. This was the first film of Climati's and Morra's Savage Trilogy, which...
Seràgnoli. The film is an adaptation of the 1929 novel of the same name by AlbertoMoravia. It was released in Italy on 24 November 2020. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi...
shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. Parks has translated works by AlbertoMoravia, Antonio Tabucchi, Italo Calvino, Roberto Calasso, Niccolò Machiavelli...
film directed by Mauro Bolognini Agostino (novel), a short novel by AlbertoMoravia MV Agostino, an Italian coaster Agostini (disambiguation) D'Agostino...
Bolognini. The film is a transposition of the eponymous novel written by AlbertoMoravia. It is the last film directed by Bolognini. A beautiful, strong-willed...
Sönmez. Past presidents since Galsworthy have included E. M. Forster, AlbertoMoravia, Heinrich Böll, Arthur Miller, Mario Vargas Llosa, Homero Aridjis,...
Pasolini frequently travelled abroad: in 1961, with Elsa Morante and AlbertoMoravia to India (where he went again seven years later); in 1962, to Sudan...
starring Claudia Cardinale. It is based on the novel Gli indifferenti by AlbertoMoravia. Aging countess Maria Grazia Ardengo and her children Carla and Michele...
(eponymous), Fanny Hill (Paprika), and the novel L'uomo che guarda by AlbertoMoravia (The Voyeur), while 2002 film Senso '45 is an adaptation of Senso,...
The Woman from Rome (Italian: La romana) is a 1947 novel by AlbertoMoravia about the intersecting lives of many characters, chief among them a prostitute...
War II and the journeys she made around the world with her partner AlbertoMoravia and close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas. In 2020 she...
twenty-year-old". In 1962, Cardinale was interviewed by the writer AlbertoMoravia, who focused exclusively on her sexuality and body image in films,...
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