Gli indifferenti

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Gli Indifferenti (Times of Indifference) is a novel by Alberto Moravia, published in 1929.

1 Background
2 Plot Synopsis
3 Reception
4 Film Versions

[edit] Background

After a meeting with friends at which it was agreed that each should produce a novel, the young Moravia began writing the novel that would become Gli Indifferenti. Moravia sent the manuscript to the editor of "900", a billingual (Italian-French) review with which he had previously published some short stories. It was dismissed as a "mist of words". The novel was published with a 5,000 lira contribution from Moravia's father,Carlo Pincherle, as the Milanese publisher Alpes was unwilling to take a risk on an unknown author.

[edit] Plot Synopsis

The novel is a psychological portrayal of the life of a middle-class mother and her two children. The action of the novel takes place largely over two days. Leo, the wealthy lover of Mariagrazia, a middle-class widow, begins aa affair with her daughter, Carla. Carla decides that she will sleep with Leo the following day (her twenty-fourth birthday) in order "to begin a new life".

[edit] Reception

The first edition sold out within a number of weeks.An English translation of the novel was published in America in 1935 under the title The Indifferent Ones.