Contempt

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.

Author: Alberto Moravia
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 07/31/2004
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.04w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781590171226
ISBN10: 1590171225
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Psychological
- Fiction | Classics

About the Author
Alberto Moravia (1907-1990) was one of Italy's greatest twentieth-century writers. Among his best-known books to have appeared in English are Boredom, The Woman of Rome, The Conformist (the basis for Bernardo Bertolucci's film), Roman Tales, Contempt (the basis for Jean-Luc Godard's film), and Two Women.

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His books include Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing and The Server.