emotional affairs

Author's name: Dino Buzzati

Antonio slowed his pace so he could catch up with her. He hadn't followed women down the street trying to talk to them since he was a student, and even then he'd only done so four or five times, not because he hated talking to women, but because his shyness had completely taken over. He was convinced that his looks could never attract any woman, and besides, the few attempts he'd had as a young boy had been unsuccessful. In the company of his friends, Antonio was witty and clever, but as soon as he tried to approach women, his inferiority complex made him act like a big fool; he couldn't speak, then he'd stammer, and his voice would become false, harsh, and off-putting from his embarrassment.

In this work, Buzzati reaches the deepest fears of modern man, through his description of true love with ideal clarity, destined to be lost amidst lies, like someone lost in a maze.

Dino Buzzati: A famous Italian novelist, journalist, and poet, he won the Strega and Naples Prizes. He was called "the Italian Kafka." He published a number of successful works, most notably the novel "The Tartar Desert."