by Alberto Moravia · Plaza Y Janes Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401421297
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«El desprecio» is the novel by Alberto Moravia, published by Plaza y Janés in paperback (253 pages, in Spanish).
Riccardo works as a screenwriter in postwar Rome. After two years of marriage, his wife Emilia begins to despise him without his understanding why. The novel explores the routine, fatigue and contradictions of bourgeois society as the couple falls apart, with attention to humiliation and sexual frustration.
Originally published as «Il disprezzo» in 1954. This Spanish edition, published in 1983, translated by Juan Moreno, belongs to the El Ave Fénix collection, number 29.
For readers of classic Italian fiction and novels about marriage and bourgeois society. Jean-Luc Godard adapted it to film.
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.
