by Alberto Moravia · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420612461
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«Agostino. La desobediencia» is a volume of two short novels by Alberto Moravia, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (235 pages, in Spanish).
«Agostino»: a protected boy who idolises his young widowed mother undergoes an awakening upon discovering sexuality and infidelity. «La desobediencia»: an adolescent questions social conventions, feels alienated and seeks his own path. Both portray the psychological complexity of adolescence.
It belongs to the El Libro de Bolsillo collection. The two novels were originally published in Italy in 1944 and 1948.
For readers of twentieth-century Italian fiction and coming-of-age stories.
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.
