Contempt - Alberto Moravia The two forge an unlikely

The two forge an unlikely friendship

crumbling apartment

Beginning in 1999

and imperilled masculinity

someone arrives at the scene to clear up all trace of the incident

Contempt - Alberto Moravia The two forge an unlikelyContempt 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