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Albertu Moravia

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Conjugal Love was written in the original Italian, by Alberto Moravia in 1947. It was first translated into English in 1951, and has since a new translation by Marina Harss was published by Other Press in 2007. The novel is written in the first person by a rich Italian dilettante who has gone with his wife to the …

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The glitter and cynicism of Rome under Mussolini provide the background of what is probably Alberto Moravia’s best and best-known novel — The Woman of Rome. It’s the story of Adriana, a simple girl with no fortune but her beauty who models naked for a painter, accepts gifts from men, and could never quite identify the …