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Alberto Moravia

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Alberto Moravia · Arts & Literature

What

Italian novelist ('The Conformist', 'The Time of Indifference')

When

1907, Rome, Italy — 1990, Rome, Italy

Where

Italy

Biography

Alberto Moravia is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Italian novelist ('The Conformist', 'The Time of Indifference')

How & why

Alberto Moravia (born Alberto Pincherle) was one of the leading Italian novelists of the twentieth century, whose spare, psychologically penetrating fiction dissected bourgeois alienation, sexuality and Fascism in works such as The Time of Indifference and The Conformist. His father was Jewish and his mother Catholic; he was of partial Jewish ancestry.

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Italian novelist ('The Conformist', 'The Time of Indifference')

1907

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature