Contempt - Alberto Moravia exile and cities that shaped

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

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

eight of them form a close group

and imperilled masculinity

The two forge an unlikely friendship

Contempt - Alberto Moravia exile and cities that shapedContempt 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