Man as an end
Subtitle: a defence of humanism; literary, social, and political essays
By: Alberto Moravia ; translated from the Italian by Bernard Wall
Edition: 1st Am. ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Notes: Translation of L'uomo come fine a altri saggi, 1964.
Table of contents: title: Man as an end; title: The man and the character; title: Presence and prose; title: Recalling Time of indifference; title: Extremism and literature; title: Psychoanalysis; title: Machiavelli; title: Communism in power and the problem of art; title: Boccaccio; title: Roman walks; title: Notes on the novel; title: The short story and the novel; title: Answers to nine questions on the novel; title: Alessandro Manzoni, or the hypothesis of a Catholic realism; title: Eroticism in literature; title: Nothing amen; title: Dialogue on the painting of Renato Guttuso; title: The "vulgarity" of Giuseppe Verdi.