The Time Of Indifference
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Alberto Moravia's debut novel, The Time of Indifference, stands as a landmark of twentieth-century Italian literature, first published in 1929 to immediate critical acclaim. Set in Rome during the twilight of the bourgeoisie, it chronicles two days in the life of the Ardengo family — a widowed mother and her two adult children — as they spiral toward moral and financial ruin under the shadow of a manipulative suitor. Moravia presents a searing portrait of middle-class decadence and existential paralysis, where characters are trapped not by circumstance but by their own hollow passivity and moral cowardice. The novel's tone is cool, unflinching, and psychologically precise, anticipating the existentialist literature that would emerge across Europe in the decades to follow. Widely regarded as a forerunner of Italian neorealism, it remains a devastating and utterly compelling indictment of a society incapable of genuine feeling or action.
Author: Alberto Moravia
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Alberto Moravia's debut novel, The Time of Indifference, stands as a landmark of twentieth-century Italian literature, first published in 1929 to immediate critical acclaim. Set in Rome during the twilight of the bourgeoisie, it chronicles two days in the life of the Ardengo family — a widowed mother and her two adult children — as they spiral toward moral and financial ruin under the shadow of a manipulative suitor. Moravia presents a searing portrait of middle-class decadence and existential paralysis, where characters are trapped not by circumstance but by their own hollow passivity and moral cowardice. The novel's tone is cool, unflinching, and psychologically precise, anticipating the existentialist literature that would emerge across Europe in the decades to follow. Widely regarded as a forerunner of Italian neorealism, it remains a devastating and utterly compelling indictment of a society incapable of genuine feeling or action.