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."
- ISBN10 1299573525
- ISBN13 9781299573529
- Publish Date 1 January 2011 (first published 1 September 1999)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint New York Review of Books
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format eBook
- Language English