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Contempt

Alberto Moravia

Paperback | Pages: 251 pages

Rating: 3.91 | 3364 Users | 333 Reviews

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Title	:	Contempt
Author	:	Alberto Moravia
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 251 pages
Published	:	July 31st 2004 by NYRB Classics (first published 1954)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Italian Literature. Cultural. Italy

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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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Original Title:	Il disprezzo
ISBN:	1590171225 (ISBN13: 9781590171226)
Edition Language:	English URL https://www.nyrb.com/collections/tim-parks/products/contempt?variant=1094929409
Characters:	Ricarrdo Molteni, Emilia Molteni
Setting:	Rome(Italy) Capri(Italy)

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Ratings: 3.91 From 3364 Users | 333 Reviews

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A telling novel of a marriage gone horribly wrong, of lines of communication closed and the inability to reconnect.At first I was irritated by the narrator Ricardo, I doubted his regard for his wife and found it difficult to identify or sympathize with his total self involvement and lack of awareness, no matter how he tried to justify his position. It is a thought provoking novel, I'll give it that with the second half being more intense and driven then the first. It's difficult because while I

This is a well done story about a marriage break-up in the movie industry. Our hero, Ricardo, is a script-writer hired to write the scenario for the Odyssey. Ricardo wants to tell the story within pure classical lines. The producer wants a glitzy, extravaganza while the German director wants to write a Freudian, psychological drama. Our hero is unable to impose his will with either. His wife throws up her hands in contempt and runs off with the millionaire producer.Be sure also to the Jean-Luc

This is my third Moravia and damn if he hasn't become one of my favorites now!This is the anti-Homeric tale of the anti-Ulysses. The backdrop is a writer who takes on the dubious task of writing a script adaptation of Ulysses. Told in the first person by this screenwriter who clearly sees himself as an intellectual (referencing not only Homer but Dante and Joyce as well - woo hoo!) and sees himself as a man with integrity (no sea monsters in his script!) and yet he has a complete and utter lack

This novel could be compared to a long monologue of the narrator who tries to explain the circumstances that brought his wife to break up with him.Molteni always wanted to write scripts for drama and ended up a movie scriptwriter just to please his wife and her material needs. But just at the moment when everything seems to turn right for him, she announces him that she doesn't love him anymore. Worse than that she despises him and refuses to tell him why. The mental torture begins.Throughtout

The truth has a striking power, a lightning effect, an imposing character and no soul can rest until the truth is discovered, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Contempt is a journey of one man, an Odyssey towards the truth, however dim and dark, and cave-like, the truth is still the absolute destination that every human being thrives for.An interesting read, a compelling experience, yet very hard to come into terms with. Sometimes disturbing, yet enlightening, full of psychoanalysis,

Im not even sure the author gets what is going on in this narrative. Ive seen the movie and then read the book. The movies distance really captures what is going on, the comment on consumer society: as merely because you own something doesnt mean youll ever possess it, let alone understand it.That being: Beauty. Thats what in this book everyone is trying to possess and understand. The woman possesses beauty but doesnt own it. The writer understands it but doesnt own or possess it. And the

Thank goodness this book wasn't more than 272 pages. If you cut out all the times the author repeated, "Why don't you love me anymore, Emilia?", the book would have been all of 200 pages.Was this supposed to be a modern take on The Odyssey? If you removed the repeated discussions about Ulysses and Penelope, the book would have been all of 150 pages.I think I could rewrite this story in a few sentences...We were married for 2 years when my wife stopped loving me. I don't understand why. Oh! I