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Boredom by Alberto Moravia
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171219Author Alberto MoraviaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
The Conformist by Alberto Moravia
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $31.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883642655Author Alberto MoraviaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Contempt by Alberto Moravia
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171226Author Alberto MoraviaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
1934 by Alberto Moravia 9780374526528
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Agostino Alberto Moravia 9781590177235
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $22.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177235Author Alberto MoraviaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Conjugal Love: A Novel by Alberto Moravia 9781635426076
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635426076Author Alberto MoraviaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
The Architecture of Imagery in Alberto Moravia's Fiction by Janice M. Kozma 9780807892480
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23Kozma 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: $52.63Booksplease Price: $49.80WINNER, 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... -
World Literature After Empire: Rethinking Universality in the Long Cold War Pieter Vanhove 9781032044569
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40This 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: $113.10Booksplease Price: $93.74In 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... -
The World at Play in Boccaccio's Decameron by Giuseppe Mazzotta 9780691610870
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $75.91Giuseppe 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: $87.75Booksplease Price: $82.93How 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: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.59How 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.18A 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: $77.98Booksplease Price: $74.08Phallic 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'... -
The Architecture of Vision Writings and Interviews on Cinema by Michelangelo Antonioni 9780226021140
Booksplease Price: $80.73"A filmmaker is a man like any other; and yet his life is not the same. . . . This is, I think, a special way of being in contact with reality." Or so says Michelangelo Antonioni, the legendary... -
As You Were Saying: American Writers Respond to Their French Contemporaries by Fabrice Rozie 9781564784742
Booksplease Price: $13.63'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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Some 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: $64.35Booksplease Price: $55.54Pietro 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07Numbers 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89'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... -
Against Redemption: Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy by Franco Baldasso 9781531502386
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $170.72Discloses 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 Friction of Life: An investigation on Renato Caccioppoli's life Lorenza Foschini 9783031652615
RRP: $64.33Booksplease Price: $55.75Naples, 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... -
October 16, 1943/Eight Jews by Giacomo Debenedetti 9780268037130
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.05For 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... -
Short Story Theories by Charles E. May 9780821402214
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.05Although 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... -
The Road to San Giovanni by Italo Calvino
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25In 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: $187.20Booksplease Price: $150.91The 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... -
False Apocalypse: From Stalinism to Capitalism by Fatos Lubonja
Booksplease Price: $22.62This 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: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.46How 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: $156.00Booksplease Price: $149.99Italian 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... -
Parts of an Andrology: On Representations of Men's Bodies by Lawrence R. Schehr 9780804729208
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70The 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $18.76The 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... -
Lost Words Nicola Gardini 9780811224765
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $21.18Inside 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... -
Translating Style: A Literary Approach to Translation - A Translation Approach to Literature Tim Parks 9781905763047
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40Arising 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... -
Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico by Javier Marias 9780811218580
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $14.35"It all happened because of Elvis Presley." Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so that he can pronounce his few lines in Spanish with a... -
Mr Geography Tim Parks 9781787304536
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25Daniel Burrow once began a beautiful walk from Konstanz to Como with Julia, mercurial professor of literature, mother to two of his pupils, married, and the love of his life.After years of their... -
Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66Should you finish every book you start?How has your family influenced the way you read?What is literary style?How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup?Why do you hate the book your friend likes?Is... -
Vanishing Point Forever by M. Rubin 9798986446356
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $76.19Richard C. Sarafian's Vanishing Point (20th Century Fox, 1971) is the ultimate analog car chase movie with that hard-to-pin-down something extra. Written by renowned Cuban novelist Guillermo Cabrera... -
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45'Parks...offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian' The TimesHow does Italy really work?When Valeria travels from hot, dusty Basilicata to begin... -
Hotel Milano: Booker shortlisted author of Europa by Tim Parks 9781529919639
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.58From the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted chronicler of Italy, a classic novel about a man's emotional reckoning in a changed world far from homeFrank's reclusive existence in a leafy part of London...