ALBERTO MORAVIA: REALITY AND FICTION

ALBERTO MORAVIA REALITY AND FICTION Twenty years from Moravia's death In collaboration with the New York Review of Books, the Italian Cultural Institute will host an international symposium to survey the impact of Moravia's fiction and journalism on the idea of Italy in the American culture and imagination. The symposium will be followed by the screening of The Conformist (1970), Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece about sex and politics based on Moravia's novel.Sessions: Alain Elkann, writer Journalism: Moravia’s Views Edwin Frank, New York Review of Books Moravia: an Idea of Literature Gaetana Marrone Puglia, Princeton University Moravia and Cinema Reconsidered: the American Critical Reception Pietro Frassica, Princeton University Moravia’s Agostino and the Conspiracy of SilenceFabio Finotti, Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia America reads Moravia R.S.V.P. 212 879 4242 ext. 365