Contempt
In essence, the book is about a man named Molteni who is a screenwriter to makes ends meet. Molteni believes that his wife Emilia has ceased to love him and nothing will convince him of the contrary.
1954
The year of 1954 CE.
Some facts about 1954:
- Toronto opens Canada’s first subway line
- Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai is released
- Sarah Mae Flemming is expelled from a bus in South Carolina
- JRR Tolkien published The Fellowship of the Ring
- Elvis Presley’s first single is released
- William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies is published in London
- Gojira (Godzilla) premieres in Tokyo
- The TV dinner is invented
- Ernest Hemmingway wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Aprill 11th is the most boring day in the 20th Century
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