by Alberto Moravia · MONDADORI · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439713296
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«Paseos por África» is a collection of travel stories by Alberto Moravia, published by Mondadori in paperback (167 pages, in Spanish).
Moravia narrates his travels through several African countries —Tanzania, Zaire, Gabon and Zimbabwe— combining meticulous chronicle, political reflection and portraits of landscapes and people. He alternates misery, apartheid and violence with the strength and wisdom of Africans, in vignettes that reveal his fascination with the continent.
Original title: Passeggiate africane. Translation by Julio Martínez Mesanza. Work originally published in 1987; this Spanish edition dates from 1988.
Readers of travel literature and twentieth-century Italian fiction, as well as those who want to discover Alberto Moravia's view of Africa.
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.
