by Alberto Moravia · Debols!llo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497937030
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«El conformista» is the literary fiction novel by Alberto Moravia, published by Debolsillo in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Mussolini's Italy, the novel follows Marcello, a man who longs to fit into the society of his time. Moravia portrays conformism as a renunciation of individual freedom: the need to go unnoticed, dissolve into the crowd, and submit to the mechanisms of the totalitarian state. An inquiry into the morality of an era.
Originally published in 1951, this 2005 edition belongs to the Contemporánea collection and features a translation by Enrique Ortenbach García.
A read for those interested in twentieth-century Italian fiction and in the moral dilemmas of the individual faced with power.
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.
