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dev_g's review
5.0
My reference to invite continuing lucidity on both burgeoning, and stalling, moments of love. By far, the best commentary on depth, love, and the haunting extension of human limit. The text serves as the best dose of Realism I ever read.
lig's review
5.0
"...And I realized that a man who is despised neither can nor ought to find peace as long as contempt endures. He may say, like the sinners at the Last Judgment: 'Mountains, fall on us, and hills, cover us'; but contempt follows him even into the remotest hiding-place, for it has entered into his spirit and he bears it about with him wherever he may go."
iaiette's review against another edition
5.0
Recensione su Temperamente: [...] Con Il disprezzo, Alberto Moravia si addentra con maestria nel complicato cervello umano, nello specifico in quello di un uomo, Riccardo Molteni, che sente il terreno sbriciolarglisi sotto ai piedi a causa dell’iniziale distacco e poi del definitivo allontanamento di sua moglie. Riccardo deve scervellarsi per capire il motivo dell’inspiegabile atteggiamento della compagna Emilia: il lettore parteggia per lui. Eppure, quando finalmente, dopo patimenti vari, si arriverà a comprendere il perché del comportamento prima oscuro di Emilia, be’, allora le certezze che si erano acquisite seguendo il filo contorto ma logico dei pensieri di Riccardo, vengono meno: e ci si chiede se anche noi (donne) avremmo reagito allo stesso modo di Emilia, in una situazione simile. [...]
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Per leggerla tutta: http://www.temperamente.it/novecento/il-disprezzo-alberto-moravia/
reachant's review
5.0
What an excellent book - I bought this book in Italy when I was there a couple of years ago, and it reminded me of being there. Its comparisons with The Odyssey were also very clever. Overall a really good book.
buoymehome's review
1.0
I had to review it for a school project when I was 16. Didn't like it one bit then. I tried it again a few month back, having had 6 years of maturation. Still doesn't do it for me. I tried other books from the same author and it looks like that italian post-war neo-realism is not for me.
spyfox's review
4.0
Exhausting but interesting psychological novel... ending didn't land for me... compelling ride nonetheless
kilig's review against another edition
4.0
結尾倉促了一些，可能是因爲不知道如何接著寫這段關係，也可能是如何發展都不重要了。和《奧德賽》的互文著實有趣，一層有趣是對《奧德賽》本身故事的新解讀，另一層有趣是，男人把自己幻想成英雄史詩裏的人物，再把自己無法實現偉大歸咎於女人，如此對照，更加有趣。作者是費蘭特《碎片》裏總提起的莫蘭黛的老公，據説靈感也來自於這段關係内的危機，對莫蘭黛更感興趣了，想看看她小説裏的婚姻。
heirofalco's review
4.0
Espresso, depresso, you can feel the contempt
I'm not really what happenned while I was reading, hours just seem to fade away, like a sweet dream, you only remember the traces of it while waking up before the whole story just fades away into the past.
Note to self: Read again, when free on a rainy day
I'm not really what happenned while I was reading, hours just seem to fade away, like a sweet dream, you only remember the traces of it while waking up before the whole story just fades away into the past.
Note to self: Read again, when free on a rainy day
nathcheng's review
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
langfordreview's review
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5