by Alberto Moravia · RBA Coleccionables, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447300402
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«El desprecio» is the novel by Alberto Moravia published by RBA Coleccionables in hardcover (205 pages, in Spanish).
Riccardo, a screenwriter, and his wife Emilia watch their marriage cool as his career advances. Moravia describes the couple's deterioration with bitterness and irony, turning it into a portrait of the breakdown in communication and the crisis of values in bourgeois society.
Number 41 in the Narrativa Actual collection, with a translation by Enrique Mercadal. The original title is «Il disprezzo» (1954), and the novel was adapted for film by Jean-Luc Godard in 1963.
For readers of classic twentieth-century Italian fiction and for those who want to discover the work on which Godard's film was based.
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.
