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Alberto Moravia

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Aug 05, 2007 Kay rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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In italiano. Moravia came recommended as one of the easier-to-read novelists in the original. Certainly his style is very simple (comparisons with Hemingway might be appropriate). This book was originally banned under the Fascists.

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