# Contempt

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- Book: [Contempt](https://www.bookquiver.com/alberto-moravia/contempt) ([Contempt.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alberto-moravia/contempt.md))
- Authors: [Alberto Moravia](https://www.bookquiver.com/alberto-moravia), [Timothy Parks](https://www.bookquiver.com/timothy-parks), [Angus Davidson](https://www.bookquiver.com/angus-davidson)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-122-6
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2004-07-31
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Contempt 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,...