by Alberto Moravia · Editions J'ai Lu · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782277216568
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«La ciociara» is Alberto Moravia's war novel, published by Editions J'ai Lu in paperback (349 pages, in French).
In 1943, Cesira, a widow and shopkeeper from Rome, flees with her daughter Rosetta to the Ciociaria to escape the bombings. The journey becomes an exodus through a countryside ravaged by looting and violence, where war strikes the two women and forces them to confront the loss of innocence. Moravia narrates in Cesira's voice.
Work originally published in 1957; this French edition corresponds to number 1656 of J'ai Lu's Intégral collection.
For readers of historical fiction and Italian literature, with an interest in stories set during 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.
