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Casanova: a Study in Self Portraiture
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Stefan Zweig,
Eden Paul , Cedar Paul
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt (1725–1798), a Venetian who lived most of his life in exile from his beloved city, created myths about both himself and his Italian contemporaries. In this masterly biographical essay, Stefan Zweig examines the man and the city he left behind but never forgot. He notes that "imaginative writers rarely have a biography, and men who...more
Paperback, 160 pages
Published
January 1st 1998
by Pushkin Press
(first published August 31st 1929)
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Casanova is probably one of my favorite characters who was actually a real person. I am not sure if his memoirs are truthful, but I sure enjoy them. Also it's interesting how other writers look at Casanova, such as Stefan Zweig. The "myth" of Casanova is such, that a man who is in exile for the most of his life, dreams up a new identity of sorts. Or is it?
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Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoyed literary fame.
His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London,...more
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His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London,...more
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