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Two Adolescents

by Alberto Moravia (Deceased)

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London: Secker & Warburg, 1952. Used.

SMALL TEAR ON FRONT COVER...WELL READ PAPERBACK WITH SOME CREASES.MARK ON FRONT COVER

The Stories of Agostino and Luca. Includes Agostino (original Italian 1944), translated by Beryl de Zoete, and Luca (original Italian "La Disubbidienza" 1948), translated by Angus Davidson. Since the publcation of 'The Woman of Rome', most American critics agree that Alberto Moravia is a novelist of importance; one of the leaders of the literary renaissance that Italy has been enjoying since the war. Moravia again displays his gifts as a teller of stories sharp with characterization and deep understanding. 'Agostino'is the story of a sensitive, cloistered boy who, beyond all sense of proportion, loves and idolizes his youthful widowed mother. The shock of finding he is not the center of his mother's universe - that she is favorable to the attentions of a man of her own generation - is more than Agostino can stand. In an instinctive fumbling effort to gain self-respect and values, Agostino joins a gang of older boys who derisively and callously supply him with a quick and drastic sexual education. Agostino finds he has won knowledge without wisdom; and in the words of Moravia, "He has lost his first estate without having succeeded in winning another." Agostino is the true adolescent, familiar to everyone who recalls that confused tragi-comic period of their youth.

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Title
Two Adolescents
Author
Alberto Moravia (Deceased)
Book Condition
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Paperback
Publisher
Secker & Warburg
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1952
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