Contempt (New York Review Books Classics)

Alberto Moravia

ISBN 10: 0940322277 / ISBN 13: 9780940322271

Published by New York Review of Books, 1999

Good. Used with highlighting in text; may have other wear and/or markings but is still in solid reading condition. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore since 1992. Seller Inventory # mon0000785649

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.

Review: Rich in substance and resonant with meaning...a rare achievement.
-- The New York Times

Moravia remains one of the twentieth century's smoothest and most entertaining poets of paralysis, of the genial ennui generated by the triumph of materialism over humane values...his novels offer a bracing counterpoint to today's soft-hearted and -headed fiction.
-- Boston Review

Bibliographic Details

Title: Contempt (New York Review Books Classics)
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good