Word: boredome
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EITHER of these books is really a novel; both are exercises. attempts a study of boredom, be a study of love, and their character instead of running out of methodological bounds and gaining thereby great individuality, are held to the of the writer's game. This does mean that they exist only as agents Moravia's or Ayme's ideas about boredom or love, for both writers have too much talent to use them so . But the treatment they do seriously limits their range and and richly and delicately scented often are, they smell flatly of the thesis...
...Empty Canvas (which was organizing published under the title La Noia, , naturally, boredom) defines preoccupation as "the on of all relationship with reality". by its hero Dino, a man of with painting, war, his mother, and even his own on boredom, the novel de- a lengthy episode in his search detachment from anything that out hope or mystery. By accident the model and mistress of an painter who occupied the studio- just above his, and who has . The girl, Cecilia, offers to for Dino, but Dino no longer paints. She offers to sleep with him, but although she does...
...beyond being by the problem; Ayme his trust in the squat, stolid Martin. We should have had from Ayme if he had made fabulous and more human, but after all very likely impossible. only immediate conclusion one at is that love can be a often cloying study, boredom...
...affair with death, and in the bullring Juan Belmonte always was desperately close to dying. Throughout his thousand corridas, death seemed to be his mistress, and away from the plaza, she always seemed to him to be the better twin of boredom. When he retired in 1935, he was king of the world's matadors, more than a millionaire, a hero in his native Spain, spoken of in the same breath with Cervantes and Goya. But life grew dull as it grew safer. When a friend told him he had no choice but to die tragically, his answer held...
Pelvic Polka. Youth's greatest malaise is simple Soviet boredom. Endless bitter jokes damn the drabness of life under Communism. Asks one: "Is there life on Mars?" Answer: "No, there isn't any there either." Asks another: "Is it possible to build Communism in only one country?" "Certainly, but who wants to live there?" Russia lacks the drugstores, coffee bars or bowling alleys where the young can congregate, although there is a scattering of ice cream parlors. Cinemas are few and crowded; getting tickets to the Bolshoi or Moscow Art Theater takes hours of waiting in line...