Training objectives:
The course aims to investigate figures, connections, events and constant motifs in Moravia's work, to arrive at a new look at the writing of the Roman narrator and to bring the student closer to the rhetorical and formal mechanisms through textual analysis.
The course intends to further deepen, through the analysis of the texts of one of the most emblematic authors, some primary issues of the twentieth-century narrative tradition.

Expected learning outcomes:
The course will focus on the less frequented aspects of Alberto Moravia's production, in light of the persistence and transformation of the motives that will help the student to develop other leading links in the Moravian universe.

Knowledge and comprehension skills:
- knowledge and understanding of the fundamental nodes of Italian literature of the twentieth century;
- ability to analyse texts to provide a thematic and psychocritical interpretation of Moravia's works;
- in-depth and broad knowledge of Alberto Moravia's macrotext.

Autonomy of judgement:
- ability to contextualize the theoretical and formal mechanisms of the texts analyzed;
- ability to develop a reading methodology through thematic analysis.

Communication skills:
- ability to argue orally about the texts examined during the course.