Alberto Moravia

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Alberto Moravia was a novelist and journalist of Italian origin

Nov 28, 1907

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: November 28, 1907
  • Died on: September 26, 1990
  • Nationality: Italian
  • Famous: Novelists, Media Personalities, Journalists, Writers
  • Spouses: Carmen Llera (m. 1986–1990), Elsa Morante (m. 1941–1962)
  • Birth Place: Rome
  • Gender: Male

Alberto Moravia born at

Rome

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Birth Place

He met novelist Elsa Morante in 1936 and married her in 1941. After their marriage, they lived in Capri. They separated in 1962 and thereafter he started living with writer Dacia Maraini.

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Personal Life

In 1986, he married Carmen Llera. He dedicated his short story collection “The Thing and other stories” to Carmen.

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Personal Life

At the age of 82, he was found dead in the bathroom of his Lungotevere apartment in Rome.

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Personal Life

Coming from a wealthy middle class family of Via Sgambati in Rome, Moravia was the son of Carlo, an architect and painter and Teresa Iginia de Marsanich.

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Childhood & Early Life

On account of suffering from tuberculosis of the bone, he was confined to bed for five years. Therefore, he could not finish conventional schooling. Instead, he spent three years at home and the remaining two years in a sanatorium.

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Childhood & Early Life

He was a voracious reader; some of his favourite authors included Giosu� Carducci, Dostoevsky, Boccaccio, Joyce, Goldoni, Shakespeare, Ariosto, Moli�re, Gogol, Mallarm�. He was also well versed in French and studied English and German languages. He could write poems in both languages.

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Childhood & Early Life

After leaving the sanatorium in 1925, he moved to Bressanone. In 1927, after meeting with Corrado Alvaro and Massimo Bontempelli, he started his journalism career with the magazine “900”.

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Career

Magazine “900” published several of his short stories like “The Tired Courtesan”, “Crime at the Tennis Club” and “The Curious Thief”. He published, “Time of Indifference”, his first novel in 1929.

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Career

In the year 1930, he collaborated with “La Stampa”, a newspaper. In 1933, along with Mario Pannunzio, he started the publication of literary review magazine “Characters” and “Today”.

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Career

In 1935, he went to the United States to deliver lectures on Italian literature. In the same year his reviews of “Le Ambizioni Sbagliate” faced a ban by the Fascist regime.

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Career

In 1937, his work “The Cheat” appeared. To avoid Fascist censorship, he discussed about surrealist and allegoric genres in it. After the Fascist seized the second edition of “La Mascherata” in 1941, he started writing under a pseudonym.

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Career

His first novel “Time of Indifference”, published in 1929, was his analytical view of the moral decadence of a middle-class mother and two of her children. Literary critics praised this novel by referring it as a remarkable example of contemporary Italian narrative fiction.

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Major Work

One of his most famous novels was “The Empty Canvas”. It is a story about the troubled physical relationship between a young, rich painter and an easygoing girl in Rome.

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Major Work