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by Alberto Moravia (Author) "AFTER I HAD moved into the studio in Via Margutta, I managed to overcome the irrational and almost superstitious repugnance that villa in the Via..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc (14 Mar 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0940322285
  • ISBN-13: 978-0940322288
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 12.9 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 485,520 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Dino, a failed artist consumed by boredom, finds his life revitalized in an obsession with a young model, whose life he tries unsuccessfully to control.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Emotions, 3 Mar 2004
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I think Moravia takes us into the depths of the human psyche in ways that we may not necessarily want to. He forces us into ways of seeing things that we refuse to see or had failed to see. It is not a book about sex; it is more about relationships or our inability to form them. His boredom is not related to having nothing to do (he has enough time and money to do whatever he wants, if he accepts the money from his Mother), it is more about a certain detatchment and frustration due to our inability to form bonds. A feeling of being outside of our own existence. Quite a notch above beach reading I would say!
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2.0 out of 5 stars Catherine Cookson Goes to University, 7 Feb 2003
By Edward Barry "Out of the ordinary comes..?" (Suffolk, England) - See all my reviews
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A two dimensional novel, this could only appeal to those who want an accessibly titillating read between deceptively intellectual-looking covers.

It has been done much better before, say in Lady Chatterley's Lover - sexual obsession must be predicated on character realism. The stumbling block in this sense is that, leading protagonist Dino, emotionally vacuous and still mother-dependent, just can't conceivably attract the Lolita-esque (Nabokov, too, does the whole thing better)in a way in which will engage the reader's empathy. Yet he does. And she does. In fact they both do it quite often. Barely fleshed out characters, ironically, do get their flesh out - indeed if the novel is to achieve in any merit it's in the anatomical poetry rather than consistency in plot or characterisations.

I read it to the end, hence the two stars.

Definitely one for the beach.

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