Repressed memory and traumatic history in Alberto Moravia’s 'The Woman of Rome'

Leavitt, C. (2018) Repressed memory and traumatic history in Alberto Moravia’s 'The Woman of Rome'. In: Sambuco, P. (ed.) Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas and Nostalgia in Post-World War II Italian Culture. Rowman and LittleField, New Jersey, USA, pp. 39-54. ISBN 9781683931430

Abstract/Summary

Alberto Moravia's 1947 novel The Woman of Rome employs a surfeit of literary symbolism to represent its protagonist, the prostitute Adriana, in which she symbolizes the superabundance of reality that had come to supplant the author's bourgeois moralism.

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