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.
| ISBN: | 9781590171226 |
| Publication date: | 9th January 1999 |
| Author: | Alberto Moravia |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Genres: |
General Fiction Classic fiction: general and literary Narrative theme: Interior life |
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.
Contempt features in the following genres: General Fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Interior life
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Contempt was written by Alberto Moravia and published by New York Review Books
Contempt has 256 pages
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