"The man who stares"... Someone who stares, and someone else who watches the one who stares. Of course, if things were limited to this, we would have a simple case of voyeurism. But here the case is complicated because the voyeur knows or suspects that he is being watched. Without, moreover, this complication, a novel with a voyeur as its hero would end up in a series of spicy and scandalous images - and nothing more. And yet, Alberto Moravia managed to create one of his most fascinating stories, full of finesse and surprises, with characters who are not only the intellectual voyeur, but also the seductive and ambiguous female figures, among the most vivid that his creative imagination has shaped.