Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FANCY DRESS PARTY (299 pp.)-Alberto Moravia - Farrar, Straus & Young...
Italian Novelist Alberto Moravia is a virtuoso who makes each of his books an experiment in a different literary manner. In The Woman of Rome, it was gritty realism; in The Conformist, political allegory; in Conjugal Love, a fine-threaded analysis of human passion. An earlier Moravia novel now published in the U.S. for the first time, The Fancy Dress Party, shows him in still another manner; it seems a deliberate attempt to recreate that gay mixture of political satire and opera bouffe which make Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma a masterpiece...
...ruined Mayan city of Palenque, State of Chiapas, Mexico, Mexican Archaeologist Alberto Ruz Luhillier had the thrill that all diggers hope for: he was the first to look into a ceremonial chamber that had been closed and forgotten centuries...
...work of Gide from beginning to end is all orchestrated on a tone of ambiguous seduction . . ." It was a great pity, said L'Osservatore. "The gifts he possessed, both of interior intelligence and of rich poetry, render the condemnation all the more painful ... all the more necessary." ALBERTO MORAVIA, Italian novelist, 44, author of The Woman of Rome, Conjugal Love, The Conformist, etc. Said L'Osservatore Romano: "[Moravia] describes in detail obscene and immoral things . . . It is extremely painful that an author should show an almost exclusive interest in the lower aspects of life." Said Author Moravia...
Lucille was as dazzled by his full name (Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y De Acha III) as by his history. The only child of a prosperous Cuban politician who had been mayor of Santiago and a member of the Cuban Senate, Desi had fled to Miami with his mother during the revolution of 1933. His father, a supporter of President Machado, was put in jail, and the Arnaz possessions disappeared in the revolution...