Contempt - Alberto Moravia and most importantly - enjoyment

and most importantly - enjoyment

and imperilled masculinity

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

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

Contempt - Alberto Moravia and most importantly - enjoymentContempt 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