Name: Boredom
Rating: 3.722222222222222 (9 reviews)
ISBN: 9781590171219

Alberto Moravia

An artists falls in love with his young model.

Boredom

Pleasant read, dragged out a bit. About an Italian man who attributes too much to his mundane existential dread and thinks he lives a solipsistic reality. Much of it is ordinary in a great way -- finds enjoyment in being in love with a woman who appears at first generally placid but really is just cruel in a way that's unique to women. Overall very Italian. Enjoyed it!

Isabella

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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