by Alberto Moravia · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426412027
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El Desprecio is a novel by the Italian author Alberto Moravia, published in 1954. The story follows Riccardo Molteni, a screenwriter who faces a marital and existential crisis while working on a film adaptation of the Odyssey. Through his relationship with his wife Emilia, Moravia explores themes such as miscommunication, alienation, and the loss of identity in modern society. The novel is a profound analysis of the complexities of love and marriage, as well as a critique of the film industry and contemporary culture.
Alberto Pincherle, known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti and for the anti-fascist novel Il conformista, the basis for the film The Conformist (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Other novels of his adapted for the cinema are Agostino, filmed with the same title by Mauro Bolognini in 1962; Il disprezzo, filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as Le Mépris ; La noia (Boredom), filmed with that title by Damiano Damiani in 1963 and released in the US as The Empty Canvas in 1964 and La ciociara, filmed by Vittorio De Sica as Two Women (1960). Cédric Kahn's L'Ennui (1998) is another version of La noia.
