Contempt by Moravia, Alberto

Contempt (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590171226)

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Contempt by Moravia, Alberto

Contempt

$17.95
Contempt by Moravia, Alberto

Contempt

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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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
ISBN-10: 1590171225
ISBN-13: 9781590171226
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2004
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.04w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2004 pg. 121
By Alberto Moravia
By Alberto Moravia
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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.

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