tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post8996772775168839963..comments2023-11-22T04:10:49.266-05:00Comments on Dispatches from Zembla: Alberto Moravia: ContemptAlokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-36211741638920114062007-08-19T08:42:00.000-05:002007-08-19T08:42:00.000-05:00:) Thank you Mr ZemblaI should explode a shower o...:) Thank you Mr Zembla<BR/>I should explode a shower of accolades over the authors I read and those weirdly intelligent men who make my emotions run berserk....this's how my life gets rejuvenated n enriched during every season<BR/>but let me not ignore this crucial point before I could boot self out - your post is lucid, yet animated enough for one (drowned, swept over, swam across,experienced soul) to grasp hold of the slender issueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-61718028582813921752007-08-19T08:23:00.000-05:002007-08-19T08:23:00.000-05:00wow, you grasped so much without even having the b...wow, you grasped so much without even having the book first! great... or may be my post was very good :) yes that limited ability for self-understanding indeed is the key..<BR/><BR/>Have read neither of the two books you mentioned yet. They are already on the to-read list for long.Alokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-3499662153600812392007-08-19T00:03:00.000-05:002007-08-19T00:03:00.000-05:00well-written post as expected!"Conjugal repugnance...well-written post as expected!<BR/>"Conjugal repugnance", what a lethal space to be in, to stay unsettled with the inexplicably disenchanting silence causing so much discomfort as well as intense introspection drawn energies from the other person..that's indeed a drama!<BR/>Iris Murdoch's "The Bell" runs on a more or less similiar track...however, Dora runs away from her husband as she wants freedom, oh, a woman can never tolerate if her husband becomes too suffocatingly dependent on her! {hideous emotional dependence)<BR/><BR/>"Despair" by Vladimir Nabokov belong to this dimension to some extent!<BR/>Though I have not read Contempt, I could see the protagonist sinking into newer lows every moment with such a strong conviction...his unflappable energy to read into his wife is inability to appreciate the sacrifice he has done,i.e.winding himself against his idealogy ...Or having done so perceived huge sacrifice, dejected the man feels repugnant about self while keeping his wife as the locus poin, without identifying the problem he sleeps with, i.e. his limited ability to understand self?<BR/>am not able to resist but men are weak-minded!tey have their nonsensical logic to define their insecurities....you may say I am contemptuous but what I said is a fact boy<BR/>wll try to read this book!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-27648715030969824022007-08-18T22:45:00.000-05:002007-08-18T22:45:00.000-05:00agree about the film. the book is worthy of seriou...agree about the film. the book is worthy of serious attention too.Alokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-10475588908592385852007-08-18T16:01:00.000-05:002007-08-18T16:01:00.000-05:00Thanks for this post! I have loved Le Mépris for m...Thanks for this post! I have loved <I>Le Mépris</I> for many years, but it never occurred to me to ask whether there might have been a novel behind it. I shall try to find this when I get back home.Udgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01949287559886228889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-61794371131783852092007-08-18T03:38:00.000-05:002007-08-18T03:38:00.000-05:00Nice. Have been wanting to read the Moravia for so...Nice. Have been wanting to read the Moravia for some time. Love the film.Jabberwockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.com