Contempt - Alberto Moravia But then a chance sighting

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

These texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints of the vanquished instead of the victors

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

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

Contempt - Alberto Moravia But then a chance sightingContempt 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