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| Title | : | Contempt |
| Author | : | Alberto Moravia |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 251 pages |
| Published | : | July 31st 2004 by NYRB Classics (first published 1954) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. Italian Literature. Cultural. Italy |
Alberto Moravia
Paperback | Pages: 251 pages Rating: 3.91 | 3364 Users | 333 Reviews
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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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Very fine and insightful review, Bert. Could this novel be seen as another variation on 'Each man kills the thing he loves?'? I am glad this temptsOne of the greats among the greats. "Contempt" is a story about a screenwriter who loses his beautiful wife to his producer. Slowly the reader can see what's happening, and you just want to yell out at the page 'hey stupid, you are going to lose your beautiful wife to that awful man the producer!" But alas it's too late. And here lies a story about a man who is blinded by his indifference to the world. A very romantic story of sorts that is not romantic. A litle side note:Jean-Luc Godard made
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
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 less one notices happiness, the greater it is. Contempt. Just imagining being the object of this emotion rolling eyes, an unilateral lip curl on a beloved face, an unilateral lip curl, a sneering or bitter tone in the voice, I shiver at the thought of the chilly grasp on the heart, the sharp pangs of powerlessness and hurt accompanying it. Picture sharing your life space with a person of who you thought he or she was loving you, suddenly experiencing the change of heart, like a cold wind
A cautionary tale about a self-obsessed writer. Married, on the cusp of success as a film screenwriter, conflicted between selling out versus his passion for wring for the theater. There is a Rashomon-like theme; a new film he is hired for about Ulysses and Homer's Odyssey, is viewed differently by the writer, director and producer. At the same time the writer struggles with his doubts of whether his wife loves or despises him. His interior dialogues become twisted and prophetic.In great detail,
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