Contempt

First published in 1954, Moravia maintained that Contempt (sometimes published under the title of A Ghost at Noon) was his best novel. It was made into a film starring Brigitte Bardot by Jean-Luc Godard.

Riccardo Molteni is going round in circles trying to figure out why his wife no longer loves him. Was it something he did or said? Is there any point hoping for a reconciliation?

A tour de force dissection of the excruciating awkwardness of human interaction and the impossibility of truly knowing even those closest to us.

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