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The Conformist by Alberto Moravia
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883642655Author Alberto MoraviaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher... -
Boredom by Alberto Moravia
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171219Author Alberto MoraviaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The... -
Contempt by Alberto Moravia
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171226Author Alberto MoraviaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The... -
Agostino Alberto Moravia 9781590177235
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177235Author Alberto MoraviaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The... -
1934 by Alberto Moravia 9780374526528
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £17.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526528Author Alberto MoraviaFormat PaperbackPage Count 297Imprint Farrar, Straus and... -
Shunya Chitrapata by Alberto Moravia 9781777681951
Booksplease Price: £15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777681951Author Alberto MoraviaFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Vidya Publishing Inc... -
Conjugal Love: A Novel by Alberto Moravia 9781590512210
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590512210Author Alberto MoraviaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher... -
The Architecture of Imagery in Alberto Moravia's Fiction by Janice M. Kozma 9780807892480
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Kozma examines the use of metaphor and simile in the works of the twentieth-century Italian fiction writer Alberto Moravia, whose novels include Gli indiferenti (1929) and La Romana (1947). She... -
Against Redemption: Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy by Franco Baldasso
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48WINNER, HELEN AND HOWARD R. MARRARO PRIZE IN ITALIAN HISTORY Discloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism to democracy, examining... -
Arturo's Island: A Novel by Elsa Morante 9781631496622
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.21Elsa Morante's novels were once considered the greatest of Italy's postwar generation. Here, Ann Goldstein's "deft translation" (Madeline Schwartz, New York Review of Books) of Arturo's Island... -
World Literature After Empire: Rethinking Universality in the Long Cold War Pieter Vanhove 9781032044569
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book makes the case that the idea of a "world" in the cultural and philosophical sense is not an exclusively Western phenomenon. During the Cold War and in the wake of decolonization a plethora... -
The Gaze and the Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani by Gaetana Marrone
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.49In this, the first comprehensive book on Liliana Cavani, Gaetana Marrone redraws the map of postwar Italian cinema to make room for this extraordinary filmmaker, whose representations of... -
Mythology in the Modern Novel: A Study of Prefigurative Techniques by John J. White 9780691620152
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £37.43J. J. White reexamines the use of myth in fiction in order to bring a new terminological precision into the field. While concentrating on the German novel (Mann, Broch, and Nossack), he discusses the... -
The World at Play in Boccaccio's Decameron by Giuseppe Mazzotta 9780691610870
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55Giuseppe Mazzotta provides both a powerful framework for reading the Decameron and an important contribution to medieval and contemporary debates in esthetics Originally published in 1986. The... -
The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde by Alyce Mahon 9780691141619
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.35How the notorious author of The 120 Days of Sodom inspired the surrealists and other avant-garde artists, writers, and filmmakersThe writings of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) present a libertine... -
The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde Alyce Mahon 9780691264622
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90How the notorious author of The 120 Days of Sodom inspired the surrealists and other avant-garde artists, writers, and filmmakersThe writings of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) present a libertine... -
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages by Carmela Ciuraru 9780062356925
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42A Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year"Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable."-Sadie Stein, The New York Times"A tour de force. . . . The stories are gripping, horrific... -
Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and Twentieth-Century Literature by Peter Schwenger 9781138830196
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Phallic Critiques, first published in 1984, is a study of 'masculine' styles of writing in the twentieth century - an age, according to Virginia Woolf, when 'virility has become self-conscious'... -
Popular High Culture in Italian Media, 1950-1970: Mona Lisa Covergirl by Emma Barron 9783319909622
Booksplease Price: £81.02When Mona Lisa smiled enigmatically from the cover of the Italian magazine Epoca in 1957, she gazed out at more than three million readers. As Emma Barron argues, her appearance on the cover is... -
As You Were Saying: American Writers Respond to Their French Contemporaries by Fabrice Rozie 9781564784742
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.90'As You Were Saying' pairs some of America's best writers with their French contemporaries, to show the importance of considering - and responding to - the world beyond one's borders.About the... -
Italy: A Traveler's Literary Companion Lawrence Venuti 9781883513146
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Some of Italy's best-known writers, including Luigi Pirandello, Natalia Ginzburg, Alberto Moravia, and Antonio Tabucchi, join Italy's rising literary stars to take the reader on a panoramic tour of... -
Aretino's Dialogues by Margaret Rosenthal 9780802048905
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.48Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) was one of the most important figures in Italian Renaissance literature, and certainly the most controversial. Condemned by some as a pornographer, his infamy was due... -
Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty... -
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Elegantly written, full of wit and charm, this is travel writing at its very best' Orlando FigesIn the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led... -
The Friction of Life: An investigation on Renato Caccioppoli's life Lorenza Foschini 9783031652615
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £28.27Naples, May 8, 1959. Renato Caccioppoli, a mathematical genius, prodigious pianist, captivating storyteller, highly cultured and multilingual, believed to be the grandson of the anarchist movement... -
Against Redemption: Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy by Franco Baldasso 9781531502386
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.52Discloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism to democracy, examining authors, works and memories that were subsequently silenced... -
The First Line by Jean-Marie Laclavetine 9781803094977
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.34A sharp, witty send-up of the literary world, set in the world of book publishing-a must-read for anyone who's ever dreamt of (or dreaded) getting published. Cyril Cordouan is the beleaguered editor... -
October 16, 1943/Eight Jews by Giacomo Debenedetti 9780268037130
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47For more than fifty years, Giacomo Debenedetti's October 16, 1943 has been considered one of the best and most accurate accounts of the shockingly brief and efficient roundup of more than one... -
A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio - A Study of Their Times and Works - (Storia Letteraria del Trecento) - Translated with a Foreword by Vincenzo Traversa by Vincenzo Traversa 9781433131158
RRP: £73.70Booksplease Price: £65.47Any one wishing to investigate the literary development of the golden century of early Italian literature, the Trecento, must read Natalino Sapegno's extensive writings on the subject, in particular... -
Short Story Theories by Charles E. May 9780821402214
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Although the short story has often been called America's unique contribution to the world's literature, relatively few critics have taken the form seriously. May's collection of essays by popular... -
Parts of an Andrology: On Representations of Men's Bodies by Lawrence R. Schehr 9780804729208
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The subject of this original and provocative work is the white male body, a counterpoint in gender studies to the many readings of the representation of the female body. To look at the construction... -
Like a Prisoner by Fatos Lubonja 9781912545858
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The book contains eleven dramatic and often horrifying stories, each describing the life of a different prisoner in the camps and prisons of communist Albania. The prisoners adapt, endure, and... -
The Road to San Giovanni by Italo Calvino
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian... -
Parts of an Andrology: On Representations of Men's Bodies by Lawrence R. Schehr
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39The subject of this original and provocative work is the white male body, a counterpoint in gender studies to the many readings of the representation of the female body. To look at the construction... -
Lost Words Nicola Gardini 9780811224765
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Inside an apartment building on the outskirts of Milan, the working-class residents gossip, quarrel, and conspire against each other. Viewed through the eyes of Chino, an impressionable... -
False Apocalypse: From Stalinism to Capitalism by Fatos Lubonja
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61This unique and disturbing work concerns the events of 1997, a tragic year in the history of post-communist Albania. After the world's most isolated country emerged from Stalinist dictatorship and... -
Calm: Vintage Minis Tim Parks 9781784872595
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal... -
Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander by Maria Anna Mariani 9780192868855
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £73.35Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander explores the overlooked position of the bystander in the Nuclear Age by focusing on the Italian situation as a paradigmatic case... -
Painting Death by Tim Parks 9780099581437
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16From the bestselling author of Italian Ways and Italian Neighbours comes a darkly comic new novel of murder in Veronese high societyMorris Duckworth has a dark past. Having married and murdered his... -
Translating Style: A Literary Approach to Translation - A Translation Approach to Literature Tim Parks 9781905763047
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Arising from a dissatisfaction with blandly general or abstrusely theoretical approaches to translation, this book sets out to show, through detailed and lively analysis, what it really means to...