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...disturbing to open a bottle labeled "champagne" and find it full of beer instead. And after becoming used to such works as "The Woman of Rome," and "Two Adolescents" from the pen of Alberto Moravia, it is disturbing to read his "The Conformist...
...Conformist, by Alberto Moravia. Italy's best novelist unravels the character of a Fascist (TIME...
...Conformist, by Alberto Moravia...
Moravia's new novel unravels the character of a Fascist-a weak-kneed fellow named Marcello whose troubles all seem to stem from a cruel streak and a wish to be "normal," to be like everybody else or maybe a little more so. The Conformist is not Moravia's best novel, but it is his most ambitious. Underlying it is the question that many an Italian asks himself: How could seemingly decent people have turned into Fascist bullies...
Except as a distant allegory, The Conformist leaves the larger part of Fascism unexplained. Yet, as a picture of one particular Fascist, it is a thoroughly convincing book. It is flawed somewhat by a languorous analytical style which prevents it from picking up dramatic speed, but even second-rank Moravia makes fine reading...