Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism. He is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti , and for the anti-fascist novel Il Conformista , the basis for the film The Conformist by Bernardo Bertolucci. Other novels of his translated to the cinema are Il Disprezzo filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as Le Mépris ; La Noia , filmed with that title by Damiano Damiani in 1963 and released in the US as The Empty Canvas in 1964; and La Ciociara filmed by Vittorio de... Sica as Two Women . Cedric Kahn's L'Ennui is another version of La Noia. He was an atheist. Alberto Pincherle was born on Via Sgambati in Rome, Italy, to a wealthy middle-class family. His Jewish Venetian father, Carlo, was an architect and a painter. His Catholic Anconitan mother, Teresa Iginia de Marsanich, was of Dalmatian origin.
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| Birthdate: | November 28, 1907 |
| Birthplace: | Rome |
| Date of death: | September 26, 1990 |
| Also known as: | Moravia, Moravia, Alberto, Alberto Pincherle |