{"product_id":"contempt-9781590171226","title":"Contempt","description":"\u003ci\u003eContempt\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eContempt\u003c\/i\u003e (which was to inspire Jean-Luc Godard's no-less-celebrated film) is an unflinching examination of desperation and self-deception in the emotional vacuum of modern consumer society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlberto Moravia\u003c\/b\u003e (1907-1990) was one of Italy's greatest twentieth-century writers. Among his best-known books to have appeared in English are \u003ci\u003eBoredom\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Woman of Rome\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Conformist \u003c\/i\u003e(the basis for Bernardo Bertolucci's film), \u003ci\u003eRoman Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eContempt\u003c\/i\u003e (the basis for Jean-Luc Godard's film), and \u003ci\u003eTwo Women\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Parks\u003c\/b\u003e, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His books include \u003ci\u003eTeach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Server.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50676570718482,"sku":"9781590171226","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1234edc9-5ba9-4986-8426-a358895f820b.jpg?v=1733882608","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/contempt-9781590171226","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}