Alberto Moravia (Moravia Alberto)

(1907-1990), a literary pseudonym Alberto Pinkerle (Pincherle)
Born November 28, 1907 in Rome. The first work by Moravia, Indifferent (Gli indifferenti), published in 1929, after a few years after its establishment, has brought him fame. The modern city - a favorite scene in the books of Moravia, as well as the characters he brings urban types - people with shaky morals are guided by instinct in life: lust, greed, ambition. Unsophisticated, reportorial style and pessimistic irony characterize all creativity Moravia. The writer is constantly changing the angle of view. Written as an autobiography of a Roman prostitute novel (La Romana, 1947) is generated by the city a special kind of spiritual way. In the novel Flyweight (Il Conformista, 1951) explores the causes of Moravia thrive in a fascist society, in Two Women (La Ciociara, 1957) - effects of war in the fate of shopkeeper and her daughter. Ruthlessly ostranennomu analysis subjected to family relationships in the novels of Conjugal Love (L'amore coniugale, 1949) and contempt (Il disprezzo, 1954). One of the key aspects of creativity Moravia - Psychology of adolescence: the story Agostino (Agostino, 1944), and Disobedience (La disubbedienza, 1948) paint a sensitive young people in crisis moments of adolescence. Low Moravia's prose deserves no less attention than the large works. His pen belong brief, photographically accurate sketches of Roman life in the collections of Roman stories (I Racconti romani, 1954) and New Roman stories (I Nuovi Racconti romani, 1959). Among other works of Moravia - storybooks Automat (L'automa, . 1963) and the thing is a thing (Una cosa e una cosa, . 1967), . political travel diary of the Cultural Revolution (La rivoluzione culturale in Cina, . 1967) and novels Boredom (La noia, . 1960), . I and he (Io e lui, . 1971), . Inner Life (La vita interiore, . 1979), . and observer (L'uomo che guarda, . 1985),
. Moravia died in Rome on September 26, 1990.