Boredom

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."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 07/31/2004
ISBN: 9781590171219
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.10w x 0.74d

Review Citations: Library Journal 10/01/2004 pg. 121