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Two friends

In this set of novellas, a few facts are constant. Sergio is a young intellectual, poor and proud of his new membership in the Communist Party. Maurizio is handsome, rich, successful with women, and morally ambiguous. Sergio's young, sensual lover becomes collateral damage in the struggle between these two men. All three of these unfinished stories, found packed in a suitcase after Alberto Moravia's death, share this narrative premise. But from there, each story unfolds in a unique way. The first patiently explores the slow unfurling of Sergio's resentment toward Maurizio. The second reveals the calculated bargain Maurizio offers in exchange for his conversion to Sergio's beloved Communism. And the third switches dramatically to the first person, laying bare Sergio's conflicted soul. Anyone interested in literature will relish the opportunity to watch Moravia at work, tinkering with his story and working at it from three unique perspectives.

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  • "Sergio travaille pour un journal antifasciste et vit avec une jeune femme, Lalla, qui voudrait faire du cinéma. Il est obsédé par Maurizio qu'il espère convaincre d'entrer au Parti communiste. Remarquant l'attirance entre Lalla et Maurizio, il propose à celui-ci de passer une nuit avec elle en échange de son adhésion au Parti."
  • "In this unfinished novella, discovered in a suitcase in 1996, Moravia offers three strikingly different portraits of a friendship poisoned by political fanaticism, unfolding as three variant drafts of the same story set in Rome after the fall of Fascism. Sergio, a poor, bitter intellectual, is both drawn toward and repelled by his wealthy friend Maurizio. Consumed by rivalry and feelings of inferiority, Sergio is determined to persuade Maurizio to join the Communist Party. In turn, Maurizio seeks to undermine Sergio's moral smugness by coaxing him into strategies that are by turns brutal and humiliating, and using Sergio's besotted girlfriend as an unwitting pawn. Through Sergio and Maurizio's ideological competition, Moravia exposes the savagery and pettiness beneath their noble ideals."
  • "In this set of novellas, a few facts are constant. Sergio is a young intellectual, poor and proud of his new membership in the Communist Party. Maurizio is handsome, rich, successful with women, and morally ambiguous. Sergio's young, sensual lover becomes collateral damage in the struggle between these two men. All three of these unfinished stories, found packed in a suitcase after Alberto Moravia's death, share this narrative premise. But from there, each story unfolds in a unique way. The first patiently explores the slow unfurling of Sergio's resentment toward Maurizio. The second reveals the calculated bargain Maurizio offers in exchange for his conversion to Sergio's beloved Communism. And the third switches dramatically to the first person, laying bare Sergio's conflicted soul. Anyone interested in literature will relish the opportunity to watch Moravia at work, tinkering with his story and working at it from three unique perspectives."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Romans (teksten)"

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  • "I due amici frammenti di una storia fra guerra e dopoguerra"
  • "Two friends"@en
  • "I due amici"
  • "I due amici : frammenti di una storia fra guerra e dopoguerra"
  • "I due amici : frammenti di una storia fra guerra e dopoguerra"@it
  • "De twee vrienden"
  • "Two friends = I due amici"
  • "Les deux amis : versions d'un roman de guerre et d'après-guerre"
  • "Two friends I due amici"
  • "Two Friends"@en

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