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The Conformist (Paperback)

by Alberto Moravia (Author), Tami Calliope (Translator)

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Paperback: 375 pages
Publisher: Zoland Books (Nov 1 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1883642655
ISBN-13: 978-1883642655
Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 363 g

Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #84,528 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Moravia is red hot! In the past year, roughly half a dozen of his books have been reprinted by numerous publishers. In addition to being highly acclaimed novels, both these titles were the basis of popular European films.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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SECRECY AND SILENCE are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist, a book which made Alberto Moravia one of the world's most read postwar writers. Clerici is a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, the hidden power that comes with his secret work for the Italian political police during the Mussolini years. But then he is assigned to kill his former professor, now in exile, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state, and falls in love with a strange, compelling woman; his life is torn open - and with it the corrupt heart of Fascism. Moravia equates the rise of Italian Fascism with the psychological needs of his protagonist for whom conformity becomes an obsession in a life that has included parental neglect, an oddly self-conscious desire to engage in cruel acts, and a type of male beauty which, to Clerici's great distress, other men find attractive.
"Moravia brings to light the devil in the flesh and in the psyche." -- The Atlantic Monthly

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3.0 out of 5 stars Hard to understand at times, but a good novel overall, Feb 20 2001

By	"cocoolio" (Pennsylvania USA) - See all my reviews

This novel is fairly difficult to follow at times, but the entire story comes together at the end. You do not have to really be into Moravia's other novels to enjoy this one, but you do have to have some patience. The good parts of the novel are only made better by the rather dull beginning. Read it if you have some free time and you want to get a taste of Moravia's talent.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Movie is better than book, Feb 2 2001

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This is one of the few instances that I have found in which the movie version of a novel is better than the novel itself. This is a contrived work through and through, and one can understand why Bertolucci completely changed the ending for the movie. Moravia here displays his utter sentimentality with an admixture of arm-chair psychology that is truly laughable....and this is probably his best novel.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Turn that page!, Aug 12 2000

By	"jojoklein" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

What a page turner! It was truly one of those books that you don't want to put down. Truly a gripping story, even up to the last paragraph! I'll definitely be reading more Moravia works.

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