European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 28 November
European Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1907 – Alberto Moravia,...
Alberto Moravia
+Vote!
3Vote!
This Terrible Quality
lathophobic aphasia (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
It was I think Alberto Moravia (and if it wasn’t, it was someone else) who said ‘the Mediterranean woman has this terrible quality’. He did not mean that she is a fat, pasty slattern in a pink towelling track suit with black roots and panda eyes. He meant rather that she is implacable, jealous, unforgiving of insult and merciless in exacting revenge for infidelity. Right....
Explore : Threesome
5Vote!
Ralston Saul new president of PEN International
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Author and big-time intellectual John Ralston Saul has just been elected president of PEN International. According to The Globe and Mail , he is the first Canadian to be elected president in the 88-year history of the organization. Saul succeeds the Czech writer Jiri Grusa, who has held the post for six years. Earlier presidents have included Arthur Miller, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Alberto Moravia....
4Vote!
THE FARRIER- A Short Story
Do you see? (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
... someone the intricacies of a Russian fireplace. Once inside, we rummaged and I saw she held this Alberto Moravia I wanted, Two Women. Like a predatory animal I eyed her. Silently pointed towards the Moravia. She eye-browed towards the flat thin book I was holding. “Horses.” She said. “You like horses'” “I don’t mind them.” I said. Why...