Word: moravia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 300 people filled a Science Center lecture hall yesterday for an informal discussion with renowned Italian novelist Alberto Moravia...
...year-old journalist, short-story writer, and novelist is known for his simple, clear style and his existential themes. His most famous novels are "The Woman of Rome" and "The Time of Indifference." Moravia is also the author of over 1000 film and book reviews...
...Moravia characterized his novels as being not realistic about facts, but about the relationships among characters...
...Alberto Moravia, Italian author (Time of Desecration) and sometime film critic: "I did not like The Godfather. Too pessimistic. And Coppola's next film, Apocalypse Now, was even worse. Marlon Brando was a cross between Benito Mussolini and a big piece of cheese...
...extreme enough. Its materials call out for the purging effects of outrageous comedy. There is some bitter wit in Desideria's cold-eyed observations, but her force as a character is throttled by garrulous abstractions. She is convincing only when she is a sounding board for Moravia's feelings, most tellingly: "I had been bourgeois, I was bourgeois, I would remain bourgeois, forever...