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    Has any one read Alberto Moravia?

    I want to introduce readers to a lost classic Italian writer, Alberto Moravia, whose two books, Boredom and Contempt, are included in the NY Review of Books. He's an existential predecessor of Camus and Sartre, yet Moravia's work has the imaginative prose and philosophical depth that classics like Nausea, No Exit, The Fall, and The Plague, harsely lack. It's time this great writer is given his due. I hope that this little bulletin inspires some to check him out. Moravia's wife is the late writer, Elsa Morante, with her own acclaimed body of work.
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    I think you mean Alberto Moravia. I read a couple of his short stories years ago, but I can't remember much about them.

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    Thanks star

    I was a little buzzed when I wrote that thread...Right you are on the name...I just changed it! Thanks!
    "He was nauseous with regret when he saw her face again, and when, as of yore, he pleaded and begged at her knees for the joy of her being. She understood Neal; she stroked his hair; she knew he was mad."
    ---Jack Kerouac, On The Road: The Original Scroll

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    As an avid reader of Camus and Sartre, I'll add this guy to my "To Read" list, thanks for the mention
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    To my shame, I have never read Moravia *adds it to list too* but I have read a novel by Elsa Morante.
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