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Erosi i Moravias

2023-04-22 20:46:05Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA MONIKA STAFA
Erosi i Moravias
Monika Stafa

In Italy more than in any other country in the West, the writer of every age has had to go through a tradition of research for what he inherits to be confirmed. Disintegrated as a nation and state by 1870; involved late in the developments of the industrial revolution; lacking in important natural resources and weighed down by a feudal class system that refused to be uprooted, Italy was ill-prepared to meet the challenges of the modern era.

Almost 90% of its population suffered from poverty and inequality.

It is mentioned in this era, for example, as the most important Italian writer Giovanni Verga and his novels, in which the sad events of Italian life are felt. But this current did not last long. She changed direction under the fatal influence of the fascist poet, Gabriele D'Annunzio.

Fascism would put pressure on Italian literature to take another direction, that of artificial optimism.

Therefore, this is the reason why constantly, in particular, the work of Alberto Moravia will be considered as a reference of the best when talking about contemporary Italian literature.

His artistry reaches its peak in the short novel; in longer novels, he finds plot as fable and weaves intrigue to draw the reader. But those who know him well say that he was not very successful here.

With over 15 books under his belt, mercilessly flogging Italy's failed attempt to become a modern state, Moravia remains a master of the short story with his mind-blowing narrative style and completely different approach to sex. , as a not only physiological but thought-provoking process. And this is where the debate about it started. Without knowing and fundamentally understanding his work.

A taboo that still remains with time.

When you read Moravian everyone asks a question; why is he so rough in the sex scenes?

Why does he seem violent in his every phrase.. In every character. In every event or in every name I use.

 

Viola.. violento.. 'violated'. It is one of his characters.

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Alberto Moravia was born in Rome in 1907. He was the son of a moderately wealthy Venetian architect. He was stricken with tuberculosis of the bones at the age of nine and suffered for a long time. The disease was not completely defeated until it left Moravia with a slight limp.

He became famous very quickly but only after he paid to publish his first book "Gli Indifferenti". You were not yet 22 years old. The book brought him a sensational success. In the official circles of the time, it was received with disdain. Although it contained no reference to politics, the merciless depiction of a false bourgeoisie was in stark contrast to the fascist mythology preached in the literature of those years.

This book also marked his journey towards success that did not stop until the end.

Such would be the case when he wrote about the love life of Benito Mussolini, the fascist leader who, although he appeared open when he ordered the book to be published, he remained a petty dictator in a failed attempt to be a modern leader. Because the book was pulled from publication a month after it went to press.

And yet Moravia loved Mussolini. He was credited with trying to rebuild Rome's dead empire. And for a people who had known an outdated and decrepit feudal system, this call would be a hope for salvation.  

It is said that when Hitler traveled to Rome to meet Mussolini in 1938, Elsa Morante, the icon of Italian literature, stood by the window with a pot of boiling oil in her hands.

The famous duo's military parade aimed at conquering Europe was to be held right below their apartment, and she had planned, with the mind of a devil, to throw burning oil on their heads as they paraded by. But he failed to carry out this childish action; Alberto Moravia, who would later become her husband, convinced her not to do this.

Sometime later when the Germans occupied Rome, he learned that the Gestapo had both husbands blacklisted. In 1943, the couple, each having a Jewish parent, left Rome to live in a remote mountain village in southern Italy for the remainder of the war.

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I have always distrusted the writer's answer when I ask him about the symbolism of his novel's plot; on the forces that clash inside the subject or the relationships that he wanted to echo.

'It's just a novel', is not just a vain answer of theirs but a desire to distract you from the way they strip a social system.

Good writers are not just those who write in a modern or contemporary style. But even those who bring their subjects back under an even more realistic, even tougher lens.

The "spiritual life" of Moravia is a model of how the resentment against a decadent, hypocritical and lying bourgeoisie of the time of fascism was added to another social-political group in the 50s, such as the new leftists. 

His "spiritual life" is nothing but the history of modern Italy. If we have to learn about its industrial boom of a few years later, we understand in what social decay it arose. And there we can learn why it has recognized and is recognizing some not very satisfactory developments in recent decades, not only economic.

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At the center of his work as a whole, with the Roman woman, Moravia symbolizes Italy. The voice of the woman is the voice of Italy; it is the existentialist spirit of the times. Perhaps by entering into the depth of this female voice he was able to understand eros as an inevitable human instinct. And own it in his own way.

His Eros, as it is otherwise called the Eros of Moravia.

Just as Balzac produces thought out of his concern with the "truth of money," so in Moravia's work you are equally drawn into his preoccupation with the "truth of sex."

For Moravia, as for many Italians, sex remains humanity's natural passion and pastime, and nothing to do with it frightens or shames him.

Moravia remains one of those thinkers who accepts both sides of the coin in man; civilization and its primitive nature, in coexistence with the eternal conflict between them.

Intellect and instinct. With eros in between.

Although in his work the wages of carnal love usually bring dissatisfaction, the flesh itself, according to him, remains a permanent miracle.

A thing of strange and excruciating beauty.


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