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Indifferent (1929), Moravia's first and most famous novel, a masterpiece of Italian modernism, the novel that brought him fame and recognition. Agostino (1944) is one of Moravia's most lyrical prose works, a short but powerful novel about coming of age.
In the Decameron, ten young people fleeing the plague tell stories about love, fate and ingenuity. The adapted version of Ljerka Car Matutinović brings selected novellas, adapted to school, with an emphasis on humor, morality and Renaissance spirit.
The Biscounted Viscount is a novel by Italo Calvino published in 1952. It is the first part of the Our Ancestors trilogy, which also includes the short novels The Baron in the Trees from 1957 and The Nonexistent Knight from 1959.
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.
Dino, a wealthy Roman painter, suffers from a deep existential boredom - an inability to feel reality. He leaves his mother's villa, moves into a studio and enters into an obsessive relationship with the young Cecilia, which brings him jealousy and crisis
In any case, I'm here, because I wrote poems, an absolutely useless product, but almost never harmful, and in that lies some of its nobility," said the Italian Nobel laureate Montale at the award ceremony.