Alberto Moravia
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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 bes
Photograph by Paolo Monti, 1982
Moravia and Elsa Morante, Capri, 1940s
Contempt (novel)
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Contempt, also known in English as A Ghost At Noon, is an Italian existential novel by Alberto Moravia published in 1954. It was the basis for the 1963 film Le Mépris by Jean-Luc Godard.
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…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 (A Ghost at Noon or Contempt), filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as Le Mépris (Contempt 1963); La noia (Boredom), filmed with that title by Damiano Damiani in…
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