Sunday, February 5, 2006

Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt

Time and its ruining passage color all the book. His sense of his own imminent death lurks in the dark background of every brilliantly lit lusty and bawdy tableau. After all, Casanova’s memoirs are not a diary but an aged man’s memories of his youth. --Kenneth Rexroth, Casanova, History of My Life, Classics Revisited (1968)


Recommended reading:
by Casanova at Reading Rat


Reference: Casanova Research Page, by Ted Emery, Dickinson College


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

Love Him Or Leave Him by Eric Ormsby, The New York Sun, February 14, 2007

Old flames, review by Frances Wilson of Casanova's Women by Judith Summers, Times Literary Supplement, November 29, 2006
(via Arts & Letters Daily)

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