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Conjugal Love

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by Alberto Moravia
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alberto Moravia, Marina Harss (Translator)Publish date:2007-01-17Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Other Press (NY)ISBN-13:9781590512210ISBN-10:1590512219UPC:9781590512210Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, WomenSize:7.66 x 5.10 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.3814Product ID:SC9YJBQ9CA
To begin with I'd like to talk about my wife. To love means, in addition to many other things, to delight in gazing upon and observing the beloved.
--From Conjugal Love

When Silvio, a rich Italian dilettante, and his beautiful wife agree to move to the country and forgo sex so that he will have the energy to write a successful novel, something is bound to go wrong: Silvio's literary ambitions are far too big for his second-rate talent, and his wife Leda is a passionate woman. This dangerously combustible situation is set off when Leda accuses Antonio, the local barber who comes every morning to shave Silvio, of trying to molest her. Silvio obstinately refuses to dismiss him, and the quarrel and its shattering consequences put the couple's love to the test.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Other Press (NY)ISBN-13:9781590512210ISBN-10:1590512219UPC:9781590512210Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, WomenSize:7.66 x 5.10 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.3814Product ID:SC9YJBQ9CA
Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia, born in Rome in 1907, was one of the greatest Italian writers of the twentieth century. His novels, which include The Woman of Rome, The Conformist, Contempt, and Two Women, have been turned into films by Bernardo Bertolucci and Jean-Luc Godard. He died in 1990.

Marina Harss

Marina Harss translations include For Solo Violin (Per Vionlino Solo), a war memoir by Aldo Zargani, and stories in The Forbidden Stories of Marta Veneranda, by Sonia Rivera-Vald. Her translations have also appeared in Bomb, Brooklyn Rail, and Autadafe. She is a researcher at The New Yorker, and lives in New York City.
Also by this author: A Week in October, Stories from the City of God
Publisher: Other Press (NY)

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Alberto Moravia, Marina Harss (Translator)

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Alberto Moravia

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