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Indifferenti

Alberto Moravia

1953301 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1953
first published
  • 1953Farrar, Straus and Young · 303 pages · ENG
  • 1953Secker & Warburg · 303 pages · ENG
  • 1970Penguin · 302 pages · ENGISBN 9780140031232
  • 1975Panther Books · 301 pages · ENG
  • 1975Greenwood Press · 303 pages · ENGISBN 9780837183831
  • 2000Steerforth Press · 310 pages · ENGISBN 9781586420055
  • 1982Playboy Paperbacks · 304 pagesISBN 9780867210149

"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.

How it reads

Character focusSmall ensemble

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Romance levelCentralSubplot

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ThemesLove
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