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Moravia and the Return of the Real

Alberto Moravia, Agostino

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On Alberto Moravia

A conversation with Gaoheng Zhang

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Moravia Questions

Questions on Agostino

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Agostino (1962 movie)

1962 adaptation of Moravia’s novel

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Moravia Videos

Videos about Alberto Moravia and Agostino

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Ferrante Videos

Videos about Elena Ferrante

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Ferrante; These two would not pass the buzzfeed friendship quizzes

This week’s reading of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend honestly left me quite confused and a little bit frustrated. Funnily enough, my brilliant friend actually lent me the physical copy of this book when I told her I was reading … Continue reading →

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‘We Were Girls Together’; A Review of My Brilliant Friend

Welcome to the last book review of the semester! This week I read My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, and I am so happy this was the last book. It is a coming-of-age book (so on brand for this class) about two girls in a poor neighbourhood in Naples. The story starts with an older […]

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