Contempt is a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European literature. All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous—his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychological complexity and social pretension, his still-striking openness about sex—are evident in this story of a failing marriage. Contempt (which was to inspire Jean-Luc Godard’s no-less-celebrated film) is an unflinching examination of desperation and self-deception in the emotional vacuum of modern consumer society.
| Book Author | Alberto Moravia & Tim Parks (introduction) & Angus Davidson (translator) |
|---|---|
| Book Series | NYRB Classics Series |
| Format | epub |
| ISBN | 9781590174845 |
| Language | eng |
| Pages | 199 |
| Publication Date | 2011-07-19 |
| Publisher | NYRB Classics |
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