Moravia's L'amore coniugale, often downplayed by critics, displays a carefully constructed and carefully articulated process of change between the protagonists. The novel reiterates a major theme in Moravia's writings, that one cannot love another person from within the constraints of conventional attitudes based on domination and submission.
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