This novel by Alberto Moravia, the basis of the film Contempt by Jean-Luc Godard, reads like a breeze despite its heavy underpinnings. At its core it is the story of a man trying to find out why his wife has stopped loving him. The man's artistic ambitions in playwrighting may be beyond his grasp, so he settles for writing film scripts for a crass Italian producer in order to give his wife the home he thinks she desires. Issues of class, Freud, and filmmaking (the movie at issue is a planned version of The Odyssey) make for a rich stew.
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