Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moravia heroine, she is certain to be vapid, gross, pettily cruel and, when she stops to think about it, unhappy. Her lover is probably an idle young aristocrat, just bright enough to be deeply and passionately bored. Naturally, they despise each other. Moravia has created these characters dozens of times, and he must have felt bewildered when he was accused of an obsession with sex. He is obsessed all right, but it is with the enormous capacity of men and women for misery and meanness; sex, promising union but bringing solitude, merely offers the most dramatic view of the human...