by Alberto Moravia · SEIX BARRAL/BIBLIOTECA DE BOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432230813
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«El tedio» is the novel by Alberto Moravia, published by Seix Barral in the Biblioteca de Bolsillo collection in paperback (282 pages, in Spanish).
El tedio narrates the crisis of an artist who, in his facets as creator, man and lover, clashes with a reality that resists him and he cannot grasp, and portrays the malaise and disorientation of 1960s society, hidden behind the apparent splendor of the 'boom', as a desperate story of love and disillusionment.
The work was originally published in 1960 as «La noia» and was awarded the Viareggio Prize in 1961.
For readers of psychological fiction and twentieth-century Italian literature, with a protagonist marked by existential crisis.
Alberto Pincherle, known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti and for the anti-fascist novel Il conformista, the basis for the film The Conformist (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Other novels of his adapted for the cinema are Agostino, filmed with the same title by Mauro Bolognini in 1962; Il disprezzo, filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as Le Mépris ; La noia (Boredom), filmed with that title by Damiano Damiani in 1963 and released in the US as The Empty Canvas in 1964 and La ciociara, filmed by Vittorio De Sica as Two Women (1960). Cédric Kahn's L'Ennui (1998) is another version of La noia.
