Contempt

Contempt

By
Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia
1954 • 251 pages

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Il disprezzo, known in English as Contempt or A Ghost At Noon, is an Italian existential novel by Alberto Moravia that came out in 1954. It was the basis for the 1963 film Le Mépris by Jean-Luc Godard.

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