by Alberto Moravia · ed. circulo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422687788
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Agostino is a novel by the Italian author Alberto Moravia, published in 1944. The story follows a young boy who experiences the loss of innocence during a summer on the Italian coast. As his mother becomes romantically involved with another man, Agostino feels displaced and seeks solace in less recommendable company, leading him to a painful and confusing maturation process. The novel explores themes such as sexuality, social class, and the loss of innocence in adolescence.
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.
