3 Review(s)

Contempt is a superb and unnerving masterpiece by one of modern European literature's revolutiory masters. Alberto Moravia's cold precision of phrase, his careful attention to inner complexity and social pretension, and his still-striking honesty about sex are all there in this rrative of a crumbling marriage. Contempt (which inspired Jean-Luc Godard's equally acclaimed film) is an unvarnished alysis of desperation and self-deception amid modern consumer society's emotiol vacuum.