The Architecture of Imagery in Alberto Moravia's Fiction

Kozma examines the use of metaphor and simile in the works of the twentieth-century Italian fiction writer Alberto Moravia whose novels include <i>Gli indifferenti</i> (1929) and <i>La romana</i> (1947). She provides a comprehensive description of types of imagery in Moravia's work organizing this compendium into a series of categories such as images of thought nature food and the human body.