by Alberto Moravia · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408461982
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«El tedio» is the novel by Italian writer Alberto Moravia, published by Planeta in hardcover (328 pages, in Spanish).
Dino, a bourgeois painter gripped by boredom, takes refuge in an obsessive relationship with Cecilia, a young model, in an attempt to grasp reality. Moravia thus portrays alienation, desire and the crisis of the individual in postwar Italian society.
«El tedio» belongs to the Clásicos Contemporáneos Internacionales collection (vol. 18). The novel was originally published as La noia in 1960 and received the Premio Letterario Viareggio Rèpaci in 1961.
For readers of Italian fiction and twentieth-century classics who delve into the psychology of disenchantment.
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.
