Il disprezzo, known in English as Contempt or A Ghost At Noon, is an Italian existential novel by Alberto Moravia that came out in 1954. It was the basis for the 1963 film Le Mépris by Jean-Luc Godard.
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Prestige, grave, contemplative and intimate.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Alberto Moravia
- First published
- 1954
- Pages
- 258
- Publisher
- Fabbri - RCS Libri, Tascabili Bompiani, Bompiani
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9788845206436
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Alberto Moravia is an Italian journalist, short-story writer, and novelist known for his fictional portrayals of social alienation and loveless sexuality. He was a major figure in 20th-century Italian literature. Moravia contracted tuberculosis of the bone (a form of osteomyelitis usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis) at the age of 8, but, during several years in which he was confined to bed and two years in sanatoriums, he studied French, German, and English; read Giovanni Boccaccio, Ludovico Ariosto, William Shakespeare, and Molire; and began to write. Moravia was a journalist for a time in Turin and a foreign correspondent in London. His first novel, Gli indifferenti (1929; Time o
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