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- I speak bad French so I would take the risk to say stupid things.

- I would dearly regret to say stupidities about my friend.

- So I prefer to speak in Italian.

- What I will ask you is to tell us, as even if some of Alberto Moravia’s novels are well known in France,

- it is difficult to place him, to say what his importance in Italian literature was, and may be over literature.

- So I wish to ask you, what is Alberto Moravia’s place in Italy?

- The position Alberto Moravia has in Italian literature is unique.

- Why is it unique?

- The first explanation would be that in Italy, Alberto Moravia is the only truly rational writer in the true sense of the term.

- Italian literature is entirely founded on what we can call poetics, that is to say that it is completely irrational.

- When Alberto Moravia doesn’t fear to be neither a poet nor modern.

- The second aspect that turns Alberto Moravia unique is his philosophy.

- At certain moments of Alberto Moravia’s life, all the philosophies crumbled.

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- And so, as always, at the very moment when philosophies crumble,

- what can be called eternal philosophy remains, Epicurean stoic philosophy.

- The main feature of this moral philosophy is to be fundamentally pessimistic.