From Library Journal
Moravia's 1960 novel was embraced by critics as one of his finest. It relates the story of a failed artist who becomes infatuated with a young model. Typical of his fiction, this book examines humankind's relationship to power, sex, and money with cold displacement.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Nicola Chiaromonte,Partisan Review
In its moral and artistic economy, [Boredom] is perhaps the most successful of all Moravia's works.... 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
