Description
Set in Rome over the course of a few charged days, this deceptively simple novel follows five intertwined lives as a bourgeois Italian family begins to unravel. At its center is a young man whose furious, confused rebellion is driven by a sense of emptiness in the world he has inherited—an atmosphere intensified by the absence of his father and his mother Mariagrazia’s desperate clinging to respectability. As family loyalties, romantic entanglements, and quiet intrigues collide, the story traces how indifference can spread like a solvent, dissolving meaning, desire, and responsibility. Moravia’s sharp, unsentimental style turns everyday gestures and conversations into a penetrating study of alienation, moral drift, and the fragile performance of “normal” life.
Available Editions
paperback
New York, Farrar : Straus and Young
Published Jan 1, 1953
312 pages
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Details
First Published
1952
Language
eng
Translation
From: ita
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Time of Indifference by Alberto Moravia.