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.

Format: Paperback
Published: US, 2004
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
Pages: 272
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9781590171226
ISBN 10: 1590171225