by Alberto Moravia · Seix Barral · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432221705
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«La campesina» is Alberto Moravia's war novel, published by Seix Barral in hardback (284 pages, in Spanish).
Cesira, owner of a shop in Rome, and her daughter Rosetta flee the horrors of the Second World War and take refuge in the countryside. There, hunger, violence and the advance of the front test their relationship and their resilience. The story, narrated in the first person by Cesira, becomes a chronicle of the war and its effects on everyday life.
Colección Obras Maestras de la Literatura Contemporánea, no. 10. The translation is by Domingo Pruna. The novel was originally published in 1957 as «La ciociara».
For readers of twentieth-century Italian fiction and war fiction seeking a classic about war from the perspective of two women.
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.
