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.
Though beginning to age, and ruing it, Casanova still manages to exert a powerful attraction on women.Volumes 9 and 10 contain descriptions of Casanova's first visits to England, Prussia, Russia, and Poland. In all these countries he gained access to the Courts. Frederick the Great of Prussia and Catherine the Great of Russia join the roster of potentates entertained and charmed by the adventurer. Though beginning to age, and ruing it, Casanova still manages to exert a powerful attraction on women.
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 Casanovists consider Trask's version the definitive English translation. Quest 2006 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: 9780801856662
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 839g
856 pages