In 1925 at the age of 18, he left the sanatorium and moved to Bressanone. During the next three years, partly in Bressanone and partly in Rome, he began to write his first novel, "Gli indifferenti" ("Time of Indifference"), published in 1929. The novel is a realistic analysis of the moral decadence of a middle-class mother and two of her children. In 1927, Moravia met Corrado Alvaro and Massimo Bontempelli and started his career as a journalist with the magazine "900". The journal published his first short stories, including "Cortigiana stanca" ("The Tired Courtesan" in French as "Lassitude de courtisane", 1927), "Delitto al circolo del tennis" ("Crime at the Tennis Club", 1928), "Il ladro curioso" ("The Curious Thief") and "Apparizione" ("Apparition", both 1929).