💬 Review A Ghost At Noon by Alberto Moravia

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Phytoplankton

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A Ghost At Noon by Alberto Moravia

Ghost At Noon is an amazing novel. It makes you fell in love with the characters.

It revolves around the life of 3 people, Emilia, Riccardo and Batista. Emily makes you go crazy in trying to understand her actions and justify them. And it infuriates you to no end as she gives no explanations at all. She is the enigma. The Script, their trip to the island and Batista presence, Emily's emotions are so beautifully laid out and you pour your heart into them. Her aloofness, her sad eyes and rejection she feels and you see Riccardo and how he is trying to make things right.
It just plainly tells you how a marriage, a very beautiful marriage died.
Emilia moves into a separate bedroom Riccardo is hurt and angry. She becomes unresponsive and uncommunicative, and he desperately tries to discover why her feelings have altered. Her attempts to create physical and emotional space between them drive him to frenzy and ultimately to violence. She wishes to leave but has nowhere to go.

A really beautiful masterpiece that is a must read

Alberto Moravia

(1907 - 1990)
Alberto Moravia was one of the leading Italian novelists of the twentieth century whose novels explore matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism. He was also a journalist, playwright, essayist and film critic. Moravia was an atheist, his writing was marked by its factual, cold, precise style, often depicting the malaise of the bourgeoisie, underpinned by high social and cultural awareness. Moravia believed that writers must, if they were to represent reality, assume a moral position, a clearly conceived political, social, and philosophical attitude, but also that, ultimately, "A writer survives in spite of his beliefs".
 

Phytoplankton

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Does anyone have any idea who the originator of the psychological reading of the Odyssey used by Moravia is? I recall Proust mentions them by name somewhere in 'In Search of Lost Time' but that's a lot of pages to skim...
I dont and am ashamed to call myself a Moravia fan,

but would definitely love to know :)
 

ch90ch91

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Well articulated effort for the review. will go through the book. Seems interesting.
 
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