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...Conformist, by Alberto Moravia. Italy's best novelist unravels the character of a Fascist (TIME...
...Conformist, by Alberto Moravia...
...Conformist, by Alberto Moravia. Italy's best novelist unravels the charac ter of a Fascist (TIME, Nov.12...
There was nothing narcotic about the year's novels from Italy. The two best were by Alberto Moravia: Conjugal Love, which dealt with a nasty marriage conflict without becoming nasty, and The Conformist, the case history of a weakling whose weakness made him a Fascist. Carlo Levi (Christ Stopped at Eboli) came a cropper with The Watch, a sympathetic but unfocused look at his postwar land, but Giuseppe Berto followed an uneven first novel (The Sky Is Red) with The Brigand, the story of an Italian Robin Hood which exposed the despair of ordinary people with a fine mixture...
...Conformist," as the other Moravia books, puts a great deal of emphasis on sex. But the Italian has not lost his talent of giving unusual outcomes to actual situations...