Week5: Agostino
Hi, everyone. Welcome to my fifth blog! This week I read "Agostino" written by Alberto Moravia. It is a complicated story. I have many thoughts to share with you. The protagonist is a little boy named Agostino. When I first started reading this book, it reminded me of Proust's Combray. I felt that the protagonists in both books have a strong attachment to their mothers. In Combray, the little boy is attached to his mother's kiss before sleep, while Agostino is infatuated with his mother's companionship. He fears that his mother might be taken away by another man, giving me the impression that he has a kind of " Oedipus complex ". In the novel, when someone comes to talk to his mother, Agostino is very disgusted. Initially, he is happy to go out to sea with his mother, but with the appearance of another man, Agostino becomes quite upset. Consequently, he decides not to go out to sea with his mother anymore, hoping that she will notice his unhappiness. Th...