Contempt (New York Review Books Classics) - Softcover

Moravia, Alberto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590171225 ISBN 13: 9781590171226

Publisher: NYRB Classics, 1999

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Alberto Moravia (1907-1990), the child of a wealthy family, was raised at home because of illness. He published his first novel, The Time of Indifference, at the age of twenty-three. Banned from publishing under Mussolini, he emerged after World War II as one of the most admired and influential twentieth-century Italian writers.<br /><br />Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Cleaver. (September 2008)

Edition details

• Publisher: NYRB Classics
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590171225
• ISBN 13: 9781590171226
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272