Contempt

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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 coo l 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 Show more