Boredom

✍ Scribed by Moravia, Alberto

• Book ID: 109188605
• Publisher: NYRB Classics
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 165 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781590171219

✦ Synopsis

The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following the 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 whom as Anthony Burgess once remarked, was "always trying to get to the bottom of the human imbroglio."

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