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The Woman of Rome

Alberto Moravia Original title La romana (Italian, 1947)

The Woman from Rome is a 1947 novel by Alberto Moravia about the intersecting lives of many characters, chief among them a prostitute and an idealistic intellectual who, after an interrogation by the Fascist officers, during which he betrays his colleagues , becomes completely disillusioned about everything.


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