La ciociara by Alberto Moravia

La ciociara by Alberto Moravia

In 1842 a young Cuban woman published in Spain a riveting tale of love and death, so radical in its point of view that it did not appear in her homeland until more than seventy years later. Centering on Catalina the Countess of S., a spellbinding protagonist modeled on the author herself, this romantic love triangle set in upper-class Spain shows the emotional havoc caused by the stern laws and customs governing marriage in the Hispanic world, norms designed for the subjugation and control of women. The story comes to a head when the female rivals for one man's love are brought together in the same room; the result is unforgettable. An introspective narrative that unfolds in a fluid musical style, Two Women was the first full-fledged feminist novel to appear in the Hispanic lands, promoting visionary ideas on women's freedom of thought and action that are still subjects of debate today, nearly two centuries later. This is the first English translation of the novel.

Alberto Moravia (1907-1990), the child of a wealthy family, was raised at home because of illness. He published his first novel, The Time of Indifference, at the age of twenty-three. Banned from publishing under Mussolini, he emerged after World War II as one of the most admired and influential of twentieth-century Italian writers. In addition to Agostino, New York Review Classics publishes Moravia's novels Boredom and Contempt.

Michael F. Moore is the chair of the PEN/Heim translation fund. His translations from the Italian include, most recently, Live Bait by Fabio Genovesi, The Drowned and The Saved by Primo Levi, and Quiet Chaos by Sandro Veronesi. He is currently working on a new translation of the nineteenth-century classic The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni.

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ISBN 13	9788845248368
ISBN 10	8845248364
Title	La ciociara
Author	Alberto Moravia
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bompiani
Year published	1989-03-17
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