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Availability:In StockContributor:Alberto Moravia, Tim Parks, Angus DavidsonSeries:New York Review Books ClassicsPublish date:2004-07-31Pages:272
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590171226ISBN-10:1590171225UPC:9781590171226Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Psychological, ClassicsSize:8.06 x 5.04 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.59Product ID:SCAXVP5ACN
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590171226ISBN-10:1590171225UPC:9781590171226Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Psychological, ClassicsSize:8.06 x 5.04 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.59Product ID:SCAXVP5ACN
Alberto Moravia (1907-1990) was one of Italy's greatest twentieth-century writers. Among his best-known books to have appeared in English are Boredom, The Woman of Rome, The Conformist (the basis for Bernardo Bertolucci's film), Roman Tales, Contempt (the basis for Jean-Luc Godard's film), and Two Women. Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His books include Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing and The Server.
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