{"product_id":"contempt-9781590171226","title":"Contempt","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alberto Moravia\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45083015938199,"sku":"9781590171226","price":1050.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781590171226.webp?v=1767635346","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/contempt-9781590171226","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}