Cover of Alberto Moravia: Contempt

Alberto Moravia Contempt

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Book information

The New York Review of Books, Inc

USA

2004

Main

Paperback

272

Standard

307819

978-1-59017-122-6

1-59017-122-5

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Annotation

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.

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