Exploring existentialism in Alberto Moravia’s Contempt, before Albert Camus & Jean-Paul Sartre

Exploring existentialism in Alberto Moravia’s Contempt, before Albert Camus & Jean-Paul Sartre

Alberto Moravia writes about existentialism through his characters. In fact, he was, in many ways, even celebrated as the founder of the literary existentialist movement, before Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. In Moravia’s Contempt, existentialism embodies many forms. The characters of Moravia are not religious, they believe in no afterlife, and no universal order or...