by Alberto Moravia · Editorial Seix Barral · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432222771
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«El desprecio» is the novel by Italian writer Alberto Moravia, published by Editorial Seix Barral in hardback (252 pages, in Spanish).
Riccardo Molteni is a screenwriter whose career advances while his marriage to Emilia falls apart. Alberto Moravia traces with irony and bitterness the wear of the couple, the lack of communication and alienation in bourgeois society; the story was adapted into film by Jean-Luc Godard in 1963.
Originally published in 1954 as «Il disprezzo»; the present edition is from 1985 and belongs to the collection Obras Maestras de la Literatura Contemporánea (no. 113).
It is a work for readers of Italian literature and classic twentieth-century narrative, or for those interested in Godard's film adaptations.
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.
