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A psychological novel by Italian writer and director Mario Soldati about a love triangle, later adapted into a film: Italian professor Edoardo, his American wife Edith and her friend Anna. Passion, deception and tragedy.
No Return (1938) follows the lives of eight young women in a Roman student dormitory, their loves, ambitions, and fates in Italian society before World War II, showing that the past cannot be returned or escaped from itself.
In "Masquerade," Moravia satirically depicts fascist Italy through absurd political intrigue and disguise. "Marital Love" intimately explores erotic tension, possessiveness, and emotional alienation in everyday life.
The autobiography of the Italian communist Giovanni Germanetto (1885–1959). The book vividly and humorously depicts the life of an Italian working-barber from his poor childhood to his involvement in the revolutionary labor movement.
In Florence 1925–1926, in the poor Via del Corno, the residents live in love, poverty and fear. The arrival of fascism destroys the community: lovers fight, some die from violence, but popular solidarity survives.
Pirandello's essayistic-reflexive work "Sun and Shadow" explores the fragility of identity and the difference between who we are and what others see, depicting a man torn between inner truth and social masks.