
Contempt
Alberto Moravia(Author)
NYRB Classics (Publisher)
Published on 31. July 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-59017-122-6 (ISBN)
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.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
New York Review Books
Dimensions
Height: 205 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59017-122-6 (9781590171226)
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Persons
Alberto Moravia; Introduction by Tim Parks; Translated by Angus Davidson
