num_pages: 406
description: 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."
language: German
title: La Noia
titlecomplete: La Noia
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Modern Classics, Italy, Italian Literature, Psychology, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 4204
places: Rome
awards: awardedAt: -283968000000
name: Premio Letterario Viareggio Rèpaci
publisher: Artemis & Winkler