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Lädt ... Contempt (New York Review Books Classics) (Original 1954; 2004. Auflage)von Alberto Moravia (Autor), Angus Davidson (Übersetzer), Tim Parks (Einführung)
Werk-InformationenContempt von Alberto Moravia (1954)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Otokar Kersovani Rijeka Some novelists are better off writing novellas. It is rare, anymore, to encounter, in the context of the 'psychological novel,' an uninsightful character who is not, at least implicitly, presented as such. If we can find this anywhere, it is perhaps in the product of the older, typically male, author who cannot sustain an --- idea. Moravia is capable of writing. The characters and situation are adequately sketched, often humorously, and with an emotional clarity which is the mark of mastery; and perhaps the early expository section remains worthwhile for these reasons. However, the narrator's fixation on the single explanation, incapable of considering the additional possibility or playing one off of the other, never considering a subsequent movement, occasionally acting with cleverness but only by instinct, and the unshakable - to the last pages - belief/conceit that he could "prove [his] case" against the charge of contempt if given the opportunity, is bizarre. Not to mention the high-school-level Freudian interpretation of Ulysses presented as fracturing deep-brain-insight by one of Wager's operatic eponyms. De 1954 es esta novela que llevaría al cine con gran éxito Jean Luc Godard. Ricardo es un guionista que, conforme alcanza el éxito en su carrera, ve cómo se desmorona su matrimonio. Entre la amargura y la ironía, un agudo análisis de la rutina y el cansancio que puede sobrevenir en la sociedad burguesa. An overbearing psychological first-person narrative where the protagonist's situation is compared obscurely to the relationship between Odysseus and Penelope. Have I read this before? Yes, I have: Bernhard Schlink uses a similar device in Homecoming. The finale is simultaneously dark and reassuring. Thinly plotted as it is, I can't say I enjoyed Contempt. There is thinking, then some more thinking, then some thinking about thinking. The "feature" of this novel is the super-analytical mind of a writer whose relationships with his wife and work overlap and disintegrate. But it felt more a study of neurosis and depression; which, from a first-hand perspective, isn't comfortable reading. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"Contempt" is a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European literature. All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous--his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychological complexity and social pretension, his still-striking openness about sex--are evident in this story of a failing marriage. "Contempt" (which was to inspire Jean-Luc Godard's no-less-celebrated film) is an unflinching examination of desperation and self-deception in the emotional vacuum of modern consumer society. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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