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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 07/31/2004
ISBN: 9781590171226
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.04w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Library Journal 10/01/2004 pg. 121