The Indifferent Ones is the first novel written by Moravia when he was just eighteen and published in 1929. The main theme of the book is the representation of the bourgeoisie at the moment of decadence in the transition from one era to another, with all its greatest flaws: superficiality, hypocrisy and its climate of constant lies. Those who live in this society, like the protagonists of the novel, are therefore "indifferent" to life, they are inept, unable to act but only able to passively suffer what happens to them, weak and impotent who do not know how to feel real passions (for this reason comparable to the characters of Svevo and Pirandello). The structure of the novel recalls that of a theatrical piece; the events take place in just two days and always in bourgeois interiors.
The Indifferent Ones is the first novel written by Moravia when he was just eighteen and published in 1929. The main theme of the book is the representation of the bourgeoisie at the moment of decadence in the transition from one era to another, with all its greatest flaws: superficiality, hypocrisy and its climate of constant lies. Those who live in this society, like the protagonists of the novel, are therefore "indifferent" to life, they are inept, unable to act but only able to passively suffer what happens to them, weak and impotent who do not know how to feel real passions (for this reason comparable to the characters of Svevo and Pirandello). The structure of the novel recalls that of a theatrical piece; the events take place in just two days and always in bourgeois interiors.
