Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
Jul 20, 2011
Publisher
NYRB Classics
ISBN-10
1590174844
ISBN-13
9781590174845
Description
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.
Genres
Romance
Horror
Nature