Description
A Love Affair follows a middle-aged architect who has mastered his profession yet remains unsettled in matters of the heart, until an enigmatic young woman ignites an obsession he can neither control nor fully understand. In a delicately rendered narrative of desire and abjection, his fixation reshapes his days, his self-image, and the fragile boundaries between admiration, need, and humiliation. As the relationship deepens, the story probes how longing can distort perception and turn intimacy into a kind of moral and emotional unraveling. With Dino Buzzati’s sharp psychological insight and lyrical, unsettling tone, this is a compact, haunting exploration of love’s darker impulses and the cost of surrendering to them.
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paperback
New York Review of Books
Published May 23, 2023
247 pages
ISBN: 9781681377124
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First Published
1964
Language
ita
Translation
From: ita
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