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Bogdan
Nov 06, 2008 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
This novel could serve as a mandatory reading for all dictators. They would know by reading this how foolish they are and perhaps they would give their ambitions.

This was a very goon novel by Alberto Moravia, that had almost no flaws. For its era and in the purpose I suppose it was writter this was a masterpiece. Interesting is the fact that you can barely find a character in this novel that you can consider a positive one. All have, in some degrees, more or less negative attributes. The only th
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