{"product_id":"boredom-isbn-9781590171219","title":"Boredom","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. \u003ci\u003eBoredom\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"“In its moral and artistic economy, [Boredom] is perhaps the most successful of all Moravia’s work. . . .No one has depicted a series of carnal acts, frenzied yet cold in their automatism—nudity, desire and its outlet—with such complete lack of complacence, such impassive truthfulness.”—Nicola Chiaromonte, \u003ci\u003ePartisan Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Precise, calculating, decadent and quite brilliant.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e“Boredom \u003c\/i\u003eis Moravia’s most succinct exploration of the quiet desperation at the heart of the automated human...one of Moravia’s funniest explorations on the origins of middle-class funk.” —Bill Marx, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003eAlberto Moravia (1907-1990), the child of a wealthy family, was raised at home because of illness. He published his first novel,\u003ci\u003eThe Time of Indifference,\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Among his best-known books to have appeared in English are Boredom, The Woman of Rome, The Conformist (the basis for Bernardo Bertolucci’s film), Roman Tales, Contempt (the basis for Jean-Luc Godard’s film), and Two Women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Weaver is celebrated for his numerous translations from the Italian, including Umberto Eco’s \u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e and novels and stories by Italo Calvino.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303835128037,"sku":"NP9781590171219","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590171219.jpg?v=1767722958","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/boredom-isbn-9781590171219","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}