Alberto MoraviaAKA:
Alberto Pincherle
Nationality:
Italian Birthdate:
11/28/1907 Birthplace:
Rome, Italy Death Date:
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biography
Eminent, highly regarded 20th-century Italian author, whose numerous works, such as "The Woman of Rome" (1947) and "The Conformist" (1951), paved the way for other European postwar novelists with their explicit depiction of sex and sexuality. A sickly, lonely child, Moravia began his first novel at 16, and after finding no one to bring it out, self-published "Gli Indifferenti/The Time of Indifference" in 1929. After several other attacks on fascism, which made him a marked man by the Mussolini regime, Moravia came into his own after the war, producing prolific tales of Rome and sex.Though he
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milestones
Year
Milestone
1924
Began writing first novel (date approximate)
1929
Self-published first novel, "Gli Indifferenti/The Time of Indifference"
1934
Lectured at Columbia University
1952
Works declared immoral by the Vatican and placed on its Index of Forbidden Books (though in the mid-1960s the Index was discontinued)
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