by Alberto Moravia · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497939355
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«El hombre que mira» is the novel by Alberto Moravia published by DEBOLSILLO in 2006, in paperback (248 pages, in Spanish).
An unusual adultery serves Alberto Moravia to delve into little-explored areas of the human soul. The protagonist prefers to observe rather than know the complete truth, driven by a peculiar curiosity that leads him to renounce the depths of things so as not to lose the pleasure of looking. The novel revisits classic themes such as the son's struggle against the father and the contrast between idealized love and sexual drive.
The work belongs to the Contemporánea collection from Debolsillo. The original title, «L'uomo che guarda», was published in 1985; this Spanish edition includes a translation by María Borri.
Recommended for readers of European literary fiction seeking novels with strong psychological weight and reflections on desire and the gaze.
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.
