History of My Life
Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova author Willard R Trask translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Published:22nd May '97
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The complete memoirs of Casanova-available for the first time in paperback.
In Rome he charms the Pope; in Naples, he nearly marries a young woman as licentious as he is himself, but she turns out to be his daughter.In volumes 7 and 8, Casanova is now close to forty. His various manipulations of the credulous rich have made him rich in turn. His travels take him to France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. In Rome he charms the Pope; in Naples, he nearly marries a young woman as licentious as he is himself, but she turns out to be his daughter.
Trask has written a version in an English fully contemporary yet remarkably Italian in sensibility. With admirable restraint and refinement, he has conveyed the zest and sensuous delight of the original. National Book Award Citation These memoirs are compulsive reading... they are the work not only of a highly accomplished seducer but of a literary artist of the highest talents. -- J. H. Plumb New York Times Book Review Trask's exemplary translation... makes the real Casanova accessible in English... as strange, as diverse, as compelling as fiction. -- John Simon Book Week Trask expertly rendered this text into English in 1966, and his is the English version to read... Compulsively readable... Certainly, few books better convey the sheer, exuberant joy of being alive and young than these reminiscences. -- Michael Dirda New York Review of Books 2007
ISBN: 9780801856655
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 703g
704 pages