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This book was agonizingly good. Read it if you want to witness (and perhaps relive) the rather rapid disintegration of a long-term relationship, step by torturous step. Each niggling doubt, each pang of hurt and betrayal, each willful choice to ignore one's intuition and instead select a creative interpretation of the incontrovertible facts. How does love turn into contempt? After the fact, it is usually too difficult (as well as painful and potentially self-incriminating) to let ourselves remember. As it is easier to simply weep, we are thus left with a blur of memories that we'd just as soon forget. This book reminds us of the process. Although it was often very painful and sad to read, there was something immensely helpful on a personal level in being able to follow so astutely the descent of a relationship. The psychology is excruciatingly spot-on. The sentences were complex and convoluted, and the word choices were always meticulous. I am very impressed by Moravia, and I look forward to reading much more of him.