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Reviewed on July 1, 2011
This work from renowned Italian author Moravia is not a novel. In fact, it is not even a set of three novellas, as the back cover announces. The manuscript pages, probably written in 1951–52, were found in a suitcase after Moravia's death in 1990. The three unfinished stories, all about a single friendship, were then patched together to create a cohesive narrative. In the first part, "Version A," the two friends of the title,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More