The Empty Canvas

Name: The Empty Canvas
Author: Alberto Moravia

by Alberto Moravia

Novel examining artistic obsession, desire, and existential emptiness

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Alberto Moravia

Italian author whose frank treatment of sexuality, alienation, and bourgeois conformity scandalized and fascinated Italian readers from the 1920s through his long career. The Time of Indifference is his debut masterpiece.

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The ConformistPsychological portrait of a fascist intellectual struggling with his political compromises
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