Me and Him

A frustrated intellectual and aspiring filmmaker finds himself in constant conflict with the most instinctive and overbearing part of his being: his own sexuality, personified as “him.” In a dialogue at once comic and unsettling, reason and desire clash relentlessly, creating situations both grotesque and absurd. With irony and sharp insight, Moravia stages the eternal struggle between creativity and impulse, sublimation and surrender, in a provocative novel that remains strikingly modern.