A review by garleighc
Boredom by Angus Davidson, Alberto Moravia, William Weaver

4.0

This book was called "the boredom" but it's anything except boring! Adultery, upper-middle-class white people problems, driving really quickly and dramatically down highways... okay, so it doesn't sound super interesting or unique but I love the way that the protagonist, while proclaiming he hates his family's wealth and doesn't care for money, seeks to possess the one thing he can't have, Cecilia. And the more he possesses her sexually the more he realizes he will never possess her fully, even as he throws money at her time after time. And then the book explores this possession's relationship with love, and the inevitability of love leading into boredom in the eyes of the protagonist. This was the first full-length novel I've read in Italian that I fully enjoyed and felt I understood.