num_pages: 320
description: The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following the Second World War 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: English
title: Boredom
titlecomplete: Boredom
genres: 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Italian Literature, Psychology, Italy, Classics, Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 4205
places: Rome
awards: awardedAt: -283968000000
name: Premio Letterario Viareggio Rèpaci
publisher: NYRB Classics