Boredom

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Boredom is a brilliant and uncompromising exploration of the relation between sexual obsession, money and masculine identity. Dino is rich and bored. He has given up painting to live from day to day. Then he meets Cecilia, a beautiful young model who is both strangely innocent and experienced, and, as he seeks to take total control of her life, his own spins widely towards destruction. A powerful and disturbing study in the pathology of modern life.

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In its moral and artistic economy, [Boredom] is perhaps the most successful of all Moravias work. . . .No one has depicted a series of carnal acts, frenzied yet cold in their automatismnudity, desire and its outletwith such complete lack of complacence, such impassive truthfulness.Nicola Chiaromonte, Partisan Review

Precise, calculating, decadent and quite brilliant. Kirkus Reviews

Boredom is Moravias most succinct exploration of the quiet desperation at the heart of the automated human...one of Moravias funniest explorations on the origins of middle-class funk. Bill Marx, Boston Review

Author Bio

Alberto Moravia (1907-1990) 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. His novels include Two Adolescents, Two Women and The Women of Rome. William Weaver, who teaches at Bard College, is a transiator and critic. His most recent book is a new translation of Italo Svevo's Zeno's Conscience (March 2002).