Translated to Arabic, 'La Noia' (1960, Boredom), a novel by Italian novelist Alberto Moravia (1907-1990). This story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached to a young model, examines the complex relations between money, sex, and imperiled masculinity. This powerful and disturbing study in the pathology of modern life is one of the masterworks of a writer whom as Anthony Burgess once remarked, was 'always trying to get to the bottom of the human imbroglio'.