Contempt - Alberto Moravia from exotic Southern tales to

from exotic Southern tales to comic parodies and fairy tales of enchanted tsars

and imperilled masculinity

and most importantly - enjoyment

crumbling apartment

Pavel may be one of Vadim’s only friends

Contempt - Alberto Moravia from exotic Southern tales toContempt 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