Word: dino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...prostitute, trying to shame her, and trying to marry her. But her answers to his endless interrogations prove noncommittal, her sexual contact with him (though pleasant) strangely incomplete. She uses his money to support another lover (Luciani) and confesses the fact freely; and refuses to marry him. Entirely defeated, Dino drives his car into a tree in an effort at suicide, fails, and regains consciousness placidly supposing his problem settled because he no longer loves Cecilia...
Watching Moravia lead his hero through extraordinarily repetitious interviews (which he aptly likens three times to "police station" cross-examination) and learning nothing from them; listening to Dino's tired voice relate scene after scene of identically mechanical couplings; one begins to perceive that the writer is as bored as Dino. Moravia's women, whose scheming sensitivity formed the most brilliant stuff of his earlier novels, are here simply diffident, grasping, and apathetic. Dino's mother, whom he might "question . . . for hours and still not come to a conclusion about anything" and Cecilia herself, despite continual references to the depth...
...Forster's Caves, all coming to nothing muffled "ou-boum"? I do not so; it is their way of dealing simple concern with which most writers are stuck whether want it or not: what can be from the century and its though wars. Moravia has escaped by Dino, who is 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...
Among actors of Italian and Spanish background, for example, Dino Crecetti opted to be Dean Martin, Margarita Cansino became Rita Hayworth, Anna Maria Italiano is now Anne Bancroft. Anglicizing their names, Anthony Benedetto became Tony Bennett and Giovanni de Simone became Johnny Desmond. Among Jews, Izzy Itskowitz probably needed to sandpaper that a bit; yet he stayed with a Jewish name: Eddie Cantor. But most-from Jerry Levitch (Jerry Lewis) to Nathan Birnbaum (George Burns), Emanuel Goldenberg (Edward G. Robinson), Pauline Levy (Paulette Goddard), Rosetta Jacobs (Piper Laurie), and Melvin Hesselberg (Melvyn Douglas)-have preferred the Anglo-Saxon angle...