Alberto Moravia
Paperback | Pages: 323 pages Rating: 3.98 | 1844 Users | 128 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Il conformista |
| ISBN: | 1883642655 (ISBN13: 9781883642655) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Marcello, Giulia, Quadri,, Lina |
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Secrecy and Silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist, a book which made Alberto Moravia one of the world's most read postwar writers. Clerici is a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, the hidden power that comes with his secret work for the Italian political police during the Mussolini years. But then he is assigned to kill his former professor, now exiled in France, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state, and falls in love with a strange, compelling woman; his life is torn open - and with it the corrupt heart of Fascism. Moravia equates the rise of Italian Fascism with the psychological needs of his protagonist for whom conformity becomes an obsession in a life that has included parental neglect, an oddly self-conscious desire to engage in cruel acts, and a type of male beauty which, to Clerici's great distress, other men find attractive.Be Specific About Epithetical Books The Conformist
| Title | : | The Conformist |
| Author | : | Alberto Moravia |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 323 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 1999 by Steerforth (first published April 15th 1951) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. Italian Literature. Cultural. Italy. Classics. Literature |
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Ratings: 3.98 From 1844 Users | 128 ReviewsCritique Epithetical Books The Conformist
One of several brilliant novels by MoraviaThe Conformist is a psychologically complex novelistic study of an Italian fascist, although not necessarily a typical fascist, done in an existential style with intense interior monologues and introspection by Alberto Moravia's protagonist, Marcello Clerici. No doubt Moravia intended Marcello as the conformist, but ironically it is his wife Giulia who nearly always conforms to what is considered normal behavior and who harbors uncritically knee jerkThis book is political or something, mostly its about a guy who wants to pretend to be a normie
I must admit having seen the movie years ago but recently forgotten much of the details of it, and finding this book, I thought I'd give it a crack whilst I was still hazy. Of course & obviously, like other books that have been adapted to film, this contains so much more detail about the characters' backgrounds; and studies far deeper the root motivation for Marcello Clerici's internal struggles, specifically. I found this to be far less political and instead really a study into a man's fear
A 4.5. A novel about normalcy, innocence, redemption, justification, eroticism, and alienation from oneself. One is caught up in the world of a protagonist with whom it is hard to sympathize, and yet he is more like oneself than any of us would like to think.The novel reads like a parable, but it isnt clear that it is one. Its a very internal novel full of detailed but often distorted, always personal descriptions of externals. Its a cross between a nineteenth-century novel and an existentialist
The Conformist adapted and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, based on the novel by Alberto MoraviaA different version of this note and thoughts on other books are available at:- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... and http://realini.blogspot.ro/A few weeks ago, I have been mesmerized by The Contempt written by the writer of The Conformist, Alberto Moravia.Then I saw Le Mepris, the adaptation for the big screen with the superb Bardot and I have included The Contempt among my favorite works.
A strange strange book about the deep roots of conformity and how it meshes with authoritarian politics under a Fascist regime.
The author and his translator have created a simple but compelling story in the midst of fascism in Italy. The main character is a flawed member of the government network that is out to destroy its enemies. Parts of the story are farcical and amusing, but overall the story is disturbing because the key themes apply to many aspects of society today. The main character's wife maintains a steadfast and unending loyalty to the fascist regime right to the end. She is constantly enticed by a nice new
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