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Country Italy Publication date 1929 | 3.6/5 Goodreads Language Italian Originally published 1929 Published in english 1935 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Published in English 1935 (as The Indifferent Ones) Similar Works by Alberto Moravia, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cult book gli indifferenti di alberto moravia
Gli Indifferenti (The Time of Indifference) is a novel by Alberto Moravia, published in 1929.
Contents
- Cult book gli indifferenti di alberto moravia
- Booktrailer gli indifferenti alberto moravia
- Background
- Plot synopsis
- Reception
- Film versions
- References
Booktrailer gli indifferenti alberto moravia
Background
After a meeting with friends at which it was agreed that each should produce a novel, the young Moravia began writing the story that would become Gli Indifferenti. Moravia sent the manuscript to the editor of 900, a bilingual (Italian-French) review with which he had previously published some short stories. It was dismissed as a "mist of words". The novel was published with a ₤5,000 contribution from Moravia's father, Carlo Pincherle, as the Milanese publisher Alpes was unwilling to take a risk on an unknown author.
Plot synopsis
Gli Indifferenti is a psychological portrayal of the life of a middle-class mother and her two children. The action of the novel takes place largely over two days. Leo, the wealthy lover of Mariagrazia, a middle-class widow, begins an affair with her daughter, Carla. Carla decides that she will sleep with Leo the following day (her twentieth birthday) in order "to begin a new life".
Reception
The first edition sold out within a number of weeks. An English translation of the novel was published in United States in 1935 under the title The Indifferent Ones.