| Contempt Revised Edition Contributor(s): Moravia, Alberto (Author), Parks, Tim (Introduction by), Davidson, Angus (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1590171225 ISBN-13: 9781590171226 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2004 Annotation: "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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.04" W x 8.06" (0.59 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |