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• W329347683 abstract "A common reaction to La noia is that Moravia has succeeded all too well: that is, his study of boredom is itself boring. His protagonist, himself a boring character, not only fails to establish a relationship to the external world; worse, his failures are merely replicated to an absurd, exasperating extent. To many, Dino's tireless obsession in the midst of exhaustion, his unfathomable ennui, his stubborn pursuit of Cecilia, which time and again makes him miserable, make up a laborious story of a character who is spoiled and maladjusted, if not bizarre. Yet our author contended in his Frammento d'autobiografia: tema dominante della mia opera sembra essere il rapporto dell'uomo con la realta' ... In realta esso e il problema fondamentale del nostro tempo ... Gli indifferenti e gli altri romanzi che seguirono, hanno tentato di esprimere in personaggi e situazioni realistiche l'urgenza di questa crisi. (1) If we can believe Moravia, if La noia is realistic, Dino's problem is our problem; moreover, our response to it is essentially the same as Dino's response. That is, although we find that satisfaction is ever elusive, we continue to pursue it; having been beguiled by one mirage, we obey the immediate impulse to chase another. This running on and on in search of gratification, from one apparently varied but essentially repetitive experience to another, can only serve to perpetuate a frustrating and pathetic existence. In this way, the realism of La noia consists precisely in Dino's instinctively repeated failures to escape boredom through appropriation of an ever more delusory reality. But then there is the Epilogue, which depicts a radical departure from the preceding nine chapters. During the convalescence following his attempted suicide, Dino seems to undergo a miracle cure of his malaise. Every stimulus he had ever tried rendered him even more bored than before; conversely, in a state of complete physical and mental inaction Dino suffers from it no longer. Thus, in spite of himself he appears to have resolved an insoluble dilemma, the fundamental problem of our time. This paradoxical, and by no means obvious solution may well have been borrowed from Buddhist philosophy. While we cannot determine precisely how deeply read Moravia was in any particular discipline, evidence from texts and interviews reveals that he was at least familiar with the oriental religion and apparently favoured it over those of the West: for example, in Un idea dell'India he wrote, Come indiano ti direl: I'Europa, quel continente dove l'uomo e convinto di esistere e di essere al centro del mondo, e I'azione preferita alla contemplazione; l'Europa ... che cosa ha a che fare con la religione? (2) In a later interview he said, Ora, a me ii monoteismo. non mi garba affatto. Non corrisponde ad un mio bisogno. Se dovessi proprio scegliere una religione, preferirei il Buddismo, che piuttosto una filosofia. (3) Moreover, he at least understood that the core of Buddhism is the doctrine that existence is dukkha: unsatisfactory, absurd and fraught with discontent. (4) As he stated to Enzo Siciliano, Il discorso del Buddha comincia col dire che Ia vita infelicita, e che percio bisogna disfarsi di essa. (5) This is the first of the so-called Four Noble Truths: existence is dukkha; dukkha is caused by ignorance and desire (avijja and tanha); by ending ignorance and desire dukkha is also brought to an end; there is a means to end avijja and tanha. Thus by transcending mundane existence (itself conditioned by avijja and tanha), one may attain the state known as nirvana or nibbana. The alternative is to remain a puthujjana, a worldling, l'homme moyen sensuel stuck in samsara: literally, going on and on, vainly seeking satisfaction in a pointless series of events. Dino appears to realise the first of these truths when he presents an unconventional definition of his affliction: Per molti la noia il contrario del divertimento; e divertimento distrazione, dimenticanza. …" @default.
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