AGOSTINO
by MORAVIA, Alberto
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Lanesborough, Massachusetts, United States
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Synopsis
Alberto Moravia (1907–1990), the child of a wealthy family, was raised at home because of illness. He published his first novel, The Time of Indifference , at the age of twenty-three. Banned from publishing under Mussolini, he emerged after World War II as one of the most admired and influential of twentieth-century Italian writers. In addition to Agostino , New York Review Classics publishes Moravia’s novels Boredom and Contempt . Michael F. Moore is the chair of the PEN/Heim translation fund. His translations from the Italian include, most recently, Live Bait by Fabio Genovesi, The Drowned and The Saved by Primo Levi, and Quiet Chaos by Sandro Veronesi. He is currently working on a new translation of the nineteenth-century classic The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni.
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- Bookseller
- Second Life Books Inc (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45531
- Title
- AGOSTINO
- Author
- MORAVIA, Alberto
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First British edition
- Publisher
- Secker and Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
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