Contempt - Alberto Moravia and imperilled masculinity

and imperilled masculinity

from exotic Southern tales to comic parodies and fairy tales of enchanted tsars

The two forge an unlikely friendship

exile and cities that shaped Dante's poetic and political life

Contempt - Alberto Moravia and imperilled masculinityContempt 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