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Adriana, a beautiful Roman girl from a poor background, wants a normal life, but her mother pushes her into posing for painters and prostitution. Her love affairs lead her through betrayal, violence and corruption to her final resignation.
In this humorous and satirical story, Boccaccio depicts life in a monastery and ridicules the hypocrisy and weaknesses of people who should live morally and piously.
The novel follows the declining Roman bourgeois family of Ardengo over the course of several days: widow Mariagrazia, lover Leo, son Michele, and daughter Carla – all trapped in apathy, lies, sexual manipulation, and moral indifference.
Marcello Clerici, obsessed with normality after a traumatic childhood and a homosexual attack, becomes a fascist bureaucrat. He marries the average Giulia, and on their "honeymoon" in Paris, he is assigned to kill a former professor, anti-fascist Quadri.
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.
Udovica Cesira i njezina kći Rosetta bježe iz bombardiranog Rima u rodnu Ciociariju, gdje proživljavaju glad, strah i bijedu. Oslobođenje donosi tragediju: Rosettu siluju marokanski vojnici, uništavajući njihovu vjeru u Boga i ljude.