by Alberto Moravia · Círculo de lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422686897
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The Conformist is a novel by Italian author Alberto Moravia, published in 1951. The story follows Marcello Clerici, a man who seeks normality and acceptance in the fascist society of Italy during the 1930s. To achieve this, he becomes an informant for the secret police and accepts the mission to assassinate a former anti-fascist professor living in Paris. As Marcello approaches his goal, he faces moral and existential conflicts that force him to question his own convictions and his desire for conformity.
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.
