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- catalog abstract ""Alberto Moravia was Italy's preeminent man of letters for much of the twentieth century. The author of numerous novels, stories, plays, and works of journalism and travel writing, he spent the early years of his life confined to a bed, entirely alone, with nothing but books and his imagination to carry him through a long struggle against tuberculosis of the bone. He had no friends, no social life, no years at a university to connect him to the world. And yet he would mature into not only a great writer, but also a renowned conversationalist whose self-possession and presence were said to be extraordinary. William Weaver, the translator of Life of Moravia, who knew the writer well, points out in his introductory note that from an early age Moravia would dramatize the life around him or the life he imagined beyond the walls of his sanatorium through stories and plays. And so it is fitting that this unusual memoir, the only autobiographical work Moravia left behind, be in the arm of an interview, a conversation with his friend the writer Alain Elkann."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Vita di Moravia. English".
- catalog contributor b12056036.
- catalog contributor b12056037.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Alberto Moravia was Italy's preeminent man of letters for much of the twentieth century. The author of numerous novels, stories, plays, and works of journalism and travel writing, he spent the early years of his life confined to a bed, entirely alone, with nothing but books and his imagination to carry him through a long struggle against tuberculosis of the bone. He had no friends, no social life, no years at a university to connect him to the world. And yet he would mature into not only a great writer, but also a renowned conversationalist whose self-possession and presence were said to be extraordinary.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-382) and index.".
- catalog description "William Weaver, the translator of Life of Moravia, who knew the writer well, points out in his introductory note that from an early age Moravia would dramatize the life around him or the life he imagined beyond the walls of his sanatorium through stories and plays. And so it is fitting that this unusual memoir, the only autobiographical work Moravia left behind, be in the arm of an interview, a conversation with his friend the writer Alain Elkann."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 399, p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Life of Moravia.".
- catalog identifier "1883642507 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Life of Moravia.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng ita".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Italia,".
- catalog relation "Life of Moravia.".
- catalog subject "853/.912 B 21".
- catalog subject "Authors, Italian 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Moravia, Alberto, 1907-1990.".
- catalog subject "PQ4829.O62 Z46813 2000".
- catalog title "Life of Moravia / Alberto Moravia and Alain Elkann ; translated by William Weaver.".
- catalog title "Vita di Moravia. English".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".