00204 - El conformista de Bernardo Bertolucci: Alberto Moravia + Platón contra el fascismo
00204 - El conformista de Bernardo Bertolucci: Alberto Moravia + Platón contra el fascismo
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01 January 2010
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Key words: Alberto Moravia, Bernardo Bertolucci, Il conformista, The Conformist, Plato’s cave, fascism
Why Bernardo Bertolucci, when adapting as a film Alberto Moravia’s novel Il conformista, introduced into its homonymous The Conformist the Platonic image of the cave? The article is to give an answer to this question by analysing Moravia’s work in search of “cave images”, which would justify Bertolucci’s decisión.