Indifferenti
1953FictionTriangles (Interpersonal relations)Man-woman relationshipsApathyContinental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
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CARLA CAME IN.
About this book
"Set in Rome, The Time of Indifference tells a deceptively simple story. Five characters are cast loose on the sea of modern life - obsessed with what they want, what they feel they are owed, the wrongs that have been done them, their loneliness. The intrigues of these family members and lovers serve to expose the hollow core of bourgeois society in the early twentieth century, and what Moravia destroys forever in this pitiless novel is the illusion that a world of ever-growing material comfort can ever feed the human soul."--BOOK JACKET.
Themes & subjects
FictionTriangles (Interpersonal relations)Man-woman relationshipsApathyContinental european fiction (fictional works by one author)Fiction, general
First published 1953Setting
Italy
About the author
Alberto Moravia
28 nov 1907 – 26 sep 1990
Alberto Moravia is an Italian journalist, short-story writer, and novelist known for his fictional portrayals of social alienation and loveless sexuality. He was a major figure in 20th-century Italian literature. Moravia contracted tuberculosis of the bone (a form of osteomyelitis usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis) at the age of 8, but, during several years in which he was confined to bed and two years in sanatoriums, he studied French, German, and English; read Giovanni Boccaccio, Ludovico Ariosto, William Shakespeare, and Molire; and began to write. Moravia was a journalist for a time in Turin and a foreign correspondent in London. His first novel, Gli indifferenti (1929; Tim…
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