by Alberto Moravia · Seix Barral · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432221088
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«La campesina» is the novel by Alberto Moravia, published by Seix Barral in hardback (284 pages, in Spanish).
In wartime Italy, Cesira, a Roman widow, flees with her daughter Rosetta from Rome to the mountainous Ciociaria. Between the Allied advance and the German retreat, they endure hunger, cold and misery until a violent episode destroys the young woman's innocence. Moravia portrays human degradation and the courage to survive.
Originally titled «La ciociara», it was first published in 1957; this Spanish edition dates from 1984.
For readers of classic fiction, Italian literature and historical fiction about the Second World War.
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.
