Two Women
by Alberto Moravia
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Author: Alberto MoraviaEditor: Ann McGarrell
Translator: Angus Davidson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); Italian (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-07
ISBN: 1586420208
Number of pages: 350
Publisher: Zoland Books
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- ISBN13: 9781586420208
- Condition: New
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Book Review: A classic of world literature
Summary: 5 Stars
In its richly detailed, nuanced, and utterly moving portrayal of the experience of everyday people amid the calamity of World War II, Two Women is one of the great war novels of all time and one of the twentieth-century's greatest novels. Had Alberto Moravia gone on to win the Nobel Prize that many say he well deserved, I suspect it would have figured largely in the decision. It is certainly not some vapid "antiwar" work, but one that captures human beings and their suffering in all the poignant, painful, often dumb, and even occasionally comic detail that only the finest literature can evoke. Sure, the protagonist we meet in the novel's opening pages is a typical, rather superficial resident of Rome, but she is presented as anything but a stick figure. Is this not the brilliance of Moravia's venture here? To tell the story of war from the perspective of a person who on the one hand is not the sort to generally reflect upon the meaning of life and war, while on the other hand being clearly moved and, indeed, changed by what she has witnessed and experienced?
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