3.5
Boredom
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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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3.5
“This book was boring. Ha! See what I did there?
All jokes aside tho, I think this is similar to " my year of rest and relaxation " in where the main character is actually pretty insufferable lol. There’s some things that are funny relatable and some cute highlights but 90% of the time I was waiting for the book to end.
Also TW for the ending.”
““I haven’t explained myself rightly. Love has no reason, it’s true, one loves and that’s that; but the quality of love, that has a reason. One loves without reason; but if one loves with sadness or with joy, with calm or with anxiety, with jealousy or with confidence, there’s always some reason behind it. As for Balestrieri, he loved you with—how shall I describe it?— with a kind of mania. You yourself have shown me that. For him you were a vice, a drug, something he couldn’t do without—those are his own words. But why this mania?””
“Contemporary Oblomov stumbling upon a female version of Meursault?? Interesting concept, interesting interaction between characters but I lacked something here. The beggining of the book outlines the main idea and struggles of the main character so i reccomend reading that at least. Apart from that a bit wasted potential or maybe i got bored with it too quickly”
About Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia (1907-1990), the child of a wealthy family, was raised at home because of illness. He published his first novel,The Time of Indifference, at the age of twenty-three. Banned from publishing under Mussolini, he emerged after World War II as one of the most admired and influential twentieth-century Italian writers.
William Weaver is celebrated for his numerous translations from the Italian, including Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and novels and stories by Italo Calvino.
William Weaver is celebrated for his numerous translations from the Italian, including Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and novels and stories by Italo Calvino.
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