Contempt - Alberto Moravia These texts bear witness to

These texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints of the vanquished instead of the victors

and most importantly - enjoyment

and imperilled masculinity

But then a chance sighting of a woman who could be Mattia's sister forces a lifetime of secret emotion to the surface

crumbling apartment

Contempt - Alberto Moravia These texts bear witness toContempt 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