Bruce Feirstein
American screenwriter
Alberto Pincherle (Italian: [al’berto ‘piNGkerle]; 28 November 1907 – 26 September 1990), known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia (US: moh-RAH-vee-@, -RAY-, Italian: [mo’ra:vja]), was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism.
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About the Alberto Moravia
Alberto Pincherleand for the anti-fascist novel Il conformistadirected by Bernardo Bertolucci. Other novels of his adapted for the cinema are Agostino, filmed with the same title by Mauro Bolognini in 1962; Il disprezzois another version of La noia.
Moravia once remarked that the most important facts of his life had been his illness, a tubercular infection of the bones that confined him to a bed for five years and Fascism because they both caused him to suffer and do things he otherwise would not have done. “It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.” Moravia was an atheist. His writing was marked by its factual, cold, precise style, often depicting the malaise of the bourgeoisie. It was rooted in the tradition of nineteenth-century narrative, underpinned by high social and cultural awareness. Moravia believed that writers must, if they were to represent reality, ‘a more absolute and complete reality than reality itself’, “assume a moral position, a clearly conceived political, social, and philosophical attitude” but also that, ultimately, “A writer survives in spite of his beliefs”. Between 1959 and 1962 Moravia was president of PEN International, the worldwide association of writers.
4 Quotes by Alberto Moravia
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Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources – and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
Alberto MoraviaItalian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
Alberto MoraviaItalian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
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When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it’s going to be until I’m under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn’t. But I don’t sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
Alberto MoraviaItalian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
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In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
Alberto MoraviaItalian writer and journalist (1907-1990)