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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.
The book consists of several stories that explore the complexity of human behavior, often through an ironic and satirical depiction of everyday life.
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.
The novel is an important representative of verismo, Italian realism, and depicts the lives of people from the south of Italy, especially the conflicts between the poor peasantry and the decaying aristocracy.
Roman prikazuje tragičnu sudbinu Mariute (Marije Zef) i njezine mlađe sestre Rosute. Djelo je šokiralo suvremenike hrabrošću u prikazivanju tabu tema, a danas se smatra klasičnim portretom ženske patnje u ruralnoj Italiji.