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Boredom

by Alberto Moravia
William Weaver
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The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society. Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached to a young model, examines the complex relations between money, sex, and imperiled masculinity. This powerful and disturbing study in the pathology of modern life is one of the masterworks of a writer who, as Anthony Burgess once remarked, was “always trying to get to the bottom of the human imbroglio.”

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    July 20, 2011

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      • ISBN: 9781590174838

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    • English

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    • Library Journal

      October 1, 2004
      Published in 1960 and 1954, respectively, these both tell the story of two men obsessed with love or the lack of it. Boredom offers Dino, an artist son of affluent parents who loses interest in his art and then himself until falling for a young model. He will do anything to possess her, even if it destroys him. Contempt 's Molteni becomes stricken with the notion that his wife despises him and attempts to discern why. His life becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, as by the time he is done badgering her to discover the reasons for these imagined ill feelings, she truly does hate him.

      Copyright 2004 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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