{"product_id":"2026200016871-secondhand-conjugal-love","title":"Conjugal Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when a man's obsessive devotion to his art begins to consume the very love he hoped to immortalise? Conjugal Love by Alberto Moravia follows Silvio Baldeschi, a wealthy Italian amateur writer who retreats with his young wife, Leda, to a Tuscan villa, convinced that a life of chastity and creative discipline will produce his literary masterpiece — only to find that the sacrifice of passion breeds jealousy, suspicion, and the unravelling of the marital bond he sought to honour.\n\nMoravia, one of the towering figures of twentieth-century Italian literature, brings his trademark psychological acuity and unflinching realism to this novella, dissecting the tensions between artistic ambition and erotic desire with surgical precision. The prose is spare yet charged, drawing the reader into Silvio's increasingly unreliable inner world, where love and creativity become locked in a fatal rivalry. A profound meditation on self-deception and the price of beauty, Conjugal Love leaves the reader questioning whether art and life can ever truly coexist — or whether one must always destroy the other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269342961883,"sku":"2026200016871-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/47ca8412-8223-4933-8b48-8b4f2fd7fbbe.png?v=1788998774","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016871-secondhand-conjugal-love","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}