gabriel moravia

independent art criticism - cultural analysis - aesthetic theory

latest update: march 2026

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The History of Humanity is Nothing But a Long Yawn of Boredom.

- Alberto Moravia


BEST OF ALL ARTS



music, films, novels, poetry, theater, paintings



9.8/10


  • Gesang der Junglinge (1956) - Karlheinz Stockhausen (Germany)

  • 9.7/10


  • Faust (1772-1832) - Johann Goethe (Germany)
  • The Flowers of Evil (1857) - Charles Baudelaire (France)
  • Symphony No. 9 (1824) - Ludwig van Beethoven (Germany)

  • 9.6/10


  • Hamlet (1602) - William Shakespeare (United Kingdom)
  • Four Quartets (1943) - T.S. Eliot (United Kingdom)
  • The Great (1826) - Franz Schubert (Austria)
  • Concerto 21 (1785) - Wolfgang Mozart (Austria)

  • 9.4/10


  • The Trial (1915) - Franz Kafka (Germany)

  • 9.3/10


  • The Four Seasons (1723) - Antonio Vivaldi (Italy/ Venice)

  • 9.2/10


  • Lorca (1969) - Tim Buckley (USA)
  • Repons (1981) - Pierre Boulez (France)
  • Trout Mask Replica (1969) - Captain Beefheart (USA)

  • 9/10


  • The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963) - Charles Mingus (USA)
  • The Red and the Black (1830) - Stendhal (France)
  • Symphony No. 15 (1971) - Dmitri Shostakovic (Russia/ Soviet Union)
  • Miss Fortune (1971) - Faust (Germany)
  • Rock Bottom (1974) - Robert Wyatt (United Kingdom)
  • The Velvet Underground & Nico (1966) - The Velvet Underground (USA)
  • The Doors (1966) - The Doors (USA)
  • Odyssey (800 BC) - Homer (Greece)
  • Rime (1280) - Cecco Angiolieri (Italy/ Republic of Siena)
  • The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490) - Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlands)

  • 8.9/10


  • Ulysses (1920) - James Joyce (Ireland)

  • 8.8/10


  • Mass in B Minor (1749) - Johann Bach (Germany)
  • Dolmen Music (1981) - Meredith Monk (USA)
  • Fare Forward Voyagers (1972) - John Fahey (USA)
  • For Alto (1969) - Anthony Braxton (USA)
  • Double Concerto (1972) - Gyorgy Ligeti (Hungary)
  • Twin Infinitives (1990) - Royal Trux (USA)
  • Diamanda Galas (1984) - Diamanda Galas (Greece/ USA)

  • 8.7/10


  • Down Colorful Hill (1992) - Red House Painters (USA)
  • Third (1970) - Soft Machine (United Kingdom)
  • Symphony for Three Orchestras (1977) - Elliott Carter (USA)
  • White Light/White Heat (1967) - The Velvet Underground (USA)
  • The Brothers Karamazov (1879) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Russia)
  • The Golden Bowl (1904) - Henry James (USA/ United Kingdom)
  • Bitches Brew (1969) - Miles Davis (USA)
  • Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles (USA)

  • 8.6/10


  • Nail (1985) - Foetus (Australia)
  • Neu! (1972) - Neu! (Germany)
  • Fire Of Love (1981) - Gun Club (USA)
  • Hosianna Mantra (1972) - Popol Vuh (Germany)
  • Irrlicht (1972) - Klaus Schulze (Germany)
  • Repeater (1990) - Fugazi (USA)

  • 8.5/10


  • Mass in B Minor (1749) - Johann Bach (Germany)
  • Tristan und Isolde (1859) - Richard Wagner (Germany)
  • Requiem (1874) - Giuseppe Verdi (Italy)
  • Tabula Rasa (1977) - Arvo Part (Estonia)
  • The Master and Margarita (1940) - Michail Bulgakov (Russia/ Soviet Union)
  • Zeno's Conscience (1923) - Italo Svevo (Italy)
  • Wilhelm Meister (1795) - Johann Goethe (Germany)
  • Geek the Girl (1994) - Lisa Germano (USA)
  • Touch of Evil (1958) - Orson Welles (USA)
  • To Live (1952) - Akira Kurosawa (Japan)
  • The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) - Orson Welles (USA)
  • Landscape in the Mist (1988) - Theo Angelopoulos (Greece)
  • Comedia (1321) - Dante Alighieri (Italy)
  • Cantos (1917-1962) - Ezra Pound (USA/ Ialy)
  • Piedra del Sol (1957) - Octavio Paz (Mexico)
  • Love Exposure (2007) - Sion Sono (Japan)
  • Seeing Things (1991) - Seamus Heaney (Northern Ireland)
  • Splendor in the Grass (1961) - Elia Kazan (Greece/ USA)
  • Symphony No. 3 (1983) - Witold Lutoslawski (Poland)
  • Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (1960) - Krzysztof Penderecki (Poland)
  • Wuthering Heights (1846) - Emily Bronte (United Kingdom)
  • Elective Affinities (1809) - Johann Goethe (Germany)
  • The Idiot (1869) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Russia)
  • Fontanelle (1992) - Babes in Toyland (USA)
  • The Portrait of a Lady (1881) - Henry James (USA/ United Kingdom)
  • Kick Out The Jams (1968) - MC5 (USA)
  • The Man Without Qualities (1933) - Robert Musil (Austria)
  • Notes Towards A Supreme Fiction (1942) - Wallace Stevens (USA)
  • Don Quixote (1615) - Miguel de Cervantes (Spain)
  • Europe After the Rain II (1941) - Max Ernst (Germany)
  • Symphony No. 4 (1884) - Johannes Brahms (Germany)
  • A Picture of Nectar (1992) - Phish (USA)
  • A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969) - Terry Riley (USA)
  • The Shop Around the Corner (1940) - Ernst Lubitsch (Germany/ USA)
  • Gravity's Rainbow (1973) - Thomas Pynchon (USA)
  • Goodbye and Hello (1967) - Tim Buckley (USA)
  • Double Nickels On The Dime (1984) - Minutemen (USA)
  • In den Garten Pharaos (1971) - Popol Vuh (Germany)
  • July 15 1972 (1972) - Taj Mahal Travellers (Japan)
  • Dream Theory in Malaya (1981) - Jon Hassell (USA)
  • Dreamtime Return (1988) - Steve Roach (USA)
  • Perfect From Now On (1996) - Built to Spill (USA)
  • Y (1979) - The Pop Group (United Kingdom)
  • Paradise Lost (1667) - John Milton (United Kingdom)



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