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    <body><![CDATA[I so adore this film I when reading the novel can actually hear the voices of the actors. (or maybe I should stop taking so many psychiatric meds) Terrific story about the neurosis behind the morbid conformist fixation that drives the main character into working within the rising Italian fascist sys...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/406084">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Powerful.  Cold but with a glassy poetic feeling for the distances between the main character, the narrator, and the rest of the world.  Tense and gripping and with an eerie stillness which really adds to the effect.  Very Camus-esque, (Camusian?), very modernist, very severely seen work of ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48763324">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Secrecy and silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist. He's a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, and the hidden power that comes with his secret work for the Italian political police during the Mussolini years. But his perfect life becomes a nightmare when he's ordered to kill his former professor to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state. When he also falls in love with a strange woman, a chain of events occur whose repercussions none could foresee. First published in 1951, The Conformist equates the rise of Italian Fascism with the psychosexual life of a man for whom conformity becomes an obsession after a traumatic experience in his youth. In 1970, director Bernardo Bertolucci turned Moravia's classic into an acclaimed film starring Jean-Louis Tritignant.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[For years I've been a huge fan of Bertolucci's film adaptation of The Conformist, and am now a huge fan of Moravia's book that inspired it.<br/><br/>I'm not sure I can recall ever reading a piece of &quot;literature&quot; that I would also qualify as a page-turner (with no offense meant to either ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69090049">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A *dark* but intriguing story about a government agent who spends his entire life trying to outrun the traumatic childhood event that defines his personal fate (according to him) in an ongoing struggle with the concept/possibility of fate and/or destiny played out in every aspect of his life as he s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60865697">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Secrecy and silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist. He's a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, and the hidden power that comes with his secret work for the Italian political police during the Mussolini years. But his perfect life becomes a nightmare when he's ordered to kill his former professor to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state. When he also falls in love with a strange woman, a chain of events occur whose repercussions none could foresee. First published in 1951, The Conformist equates the rise of Italian Fascism with the psychosexual life of a man for whom conformity becomes an obsession after a traumatic experience in his youth. In 1970, director Bernardo Bertolucci turned Moravia's classic into an acclaimed film starring Jean-Louis Tritignant.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lesson in the path of least resistance. Why the expedient choices are not always the best choices. How they can be tragic. A lesson on how rationalizing &quot;getting along&quot; can erase the soul. Something to learn and apply to actual life. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I do believe that this is one book where an awful lot is lost in translation. Either that, or the author really wanted to stress (on nearly every page) the fact that his protagonist is desperately trying to conform to societal norms. For that reason it gets marked down, and also because the central ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23737054">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Secrecy and silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist. He's a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, and the hidden power that comes with his secret work for the Italian political police during the Mussolini years. But his perfect life becomes a nightmare when he's ordered to kill his former professor to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state. When he also falls in love with a strange woman, a chain of events occur whose repercussions none could foresee. First published in 1951, The Conformist equates the rise of Italian Fascism with the psychosexual life of a man for whom conformity becomes an obsession after a traumatic experience in his youth. In 1970, director Bernardo Bertolucci turned Moravia's classic into an acclaimed film starring Jean-Louis Tritignant.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This wasn't a bad book but definitely a case where the (great) film was better than the book. Some of the childhood flashbacks in the movie which are brief glimpses become a slog in the book. The representation of repressed homosexuality giving birth to fascist tendencies in the book was less subtly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26928907">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good at Contempt, yet Moravia's writing is clear and hard and tinged with a dark emotional complexity. I think Moravia is one of the better writers I've discovered this year. The main character in The COnformist is not hateful, but does despicable things. There is a psychological logic to Cle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4539926">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Moravia is one of the great novelists of the 20th century and it would be hard to suggest a title to introduce his works to a new reader. The Conformist is often selected because it represents many of the themes that the author investigates in his works. Warning: Moravia is very much a traditionalis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36187317">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Marcello Clerici is maybe the most hateful detestable person Moravia has been created. I wanted to finish it anyway though this is not Moravia's best. Later on when I saw the film by Bertolocci, the person was still abhorrent to me. The novel is simple one dimensional narration of Fashism in Italy....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5000738">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[found a nice hardback copy used at myopic books in chicago last week.  I liked the movie, and I've read most of his other books, so why not.  if you're in chicago, do yourself a favor and go to myopic books.  it's never too late, they're open until one a.m. or something.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great one from my new boyfriend, Alberto Moravia. I liked the movie a lot, too. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic book and an amazing movie.  Would read again.  Tell me more about your newsletter etc etc]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[great story. It gets into the mind of the characters. The movie was a bit different.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in college its brillant.]]></body>
    
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