Contempt (Film Ink)
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (709 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1853753122 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 255 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | Italian |
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. From Library Journal Moravia is red hot! In the past year, roughly half a dozen of his books have been reprinted by numerous publishers. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. In addition to being highly acclaimed novels, both these titles were the basis of popular European films
"Three Stars" according to Svetlana. Great narrative story of the narrators slow demise.. Five Stars More people should know of this writer.. Moravia's Masterpiece Finally, someone had the common decency to reprint Moravia intranslation! And they also picked the best titles. Il Disprezzo (TheContempt) is the best, most honest, unflinching look at the disintegration of a relationship that I have ever read. Last released in the States in the 1950's, with the inauspicious title A Ghost at Noon, this is the same excellent translation by Angus Davidson, who translated almost all of the authors works up until his death in 1990. If you've ever experienced the conclusion of a long-term relationship and for some masochistic reason want to remember what it was like, this is t
Obsessive and confessional, sifting over every action and thought, Contempt is a tale about the precarious nature of love and integrity; a study of the limits of our subjective nature and of storytelling itself. It was adapted for the screen by Jean-Luc Godard in 1963.