Alberto L’africano o l’impressione moraviana dell’esotismo ai tempi del postcoloniale

Abstract

The paper deals with Alberto Moravia’s ‘images’ of Africa. The writer visited the continent only in his middle-age, showing immediately a deep enthusiasm for (as he wrote) “the most beautiful thing existing in the world”. Avoiding the conventional paths trodden by tourists, Moravia was able to describe nature and men, skies and rites without any prejudice, discovering with the sensitivity of a great writer that Africa is that Otherness – maybe the Androgynous – with which Europeans have always, consciously and unconsciously, been struggling.