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TIME OF DESECRATION by Alberto Moravia; Translated by Angus Davidson Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 376 pages...
HUTTERITE SOCIETY, by John A. Hosteller (Johns Hopkins University Press; 403 pages; $14). The stern Amish and their more moderate Mennonite brothers are better known than the Hutterites, another wing of German Anabaptists, whose long religious journey led them to Moravia, Transylvania and Russia before they came to North America in the last century. Hosteller, an anthropologist and sociologist at Temple University, comes from an Amish background and has already demonstrated his expertise in the well-known 1963 study called Amish Society. His new book draws an impressive picture of a people who share the general Anabaptist rejection of worldly...
...story by Borges to the breaking point. These films, in varying degree, destroyed what was good in their sources without adding anything else. Partner, in particular, which obliterates its source with such effectiveness--and to such little artistic effect--contrasts strongly with The Conformist, for which Bertolucci reordered Alberto Moravia's novel in order to rebuild it on the strongest of visual terms. In The Conformist, Bertolucci presents the same anti-bourgeois, anti-fascist feelings that make up the moral tone of Moravia's novel; in Partner, there is no moral stance aside from the platitudes uttered...
...symbol of misogyny, not revolution. Heavily involved in the Theater of Cruelty, one of the Jacobs says, "People believe themselves immortal. We must give them a sense of death." Bertolucci's own beliefs may be showing through in lines like these, as they never do when he echoes Moravia's political sentiments in The Conformist. Last Tango in Paris is pure Bertolucci, written without a source, and it too gives us a sense of death. But in that film there was a fervent impression of life set apart from a dying culture outside. Partner gives no importance to life...
...Moravia's stories are, finally, calls to accounting of the lives of people who have wept only in their dreams. "Somebody knocked at the door and a terrible voice cried 'Telegram!' " Thus ends a story ironically titled Paradise. Dante could draw another circle of hell from the slump of the Moravian woman - stifling her yawn, stifling her scream -as she shuffles to answer...