Casanova in Bolzano - Hardcover

Marai, Sandor; Szirtes, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375413375 ISBN 13: 9780375413377

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2004

Synopsis

In 1756, after escaping from Venice's most notorious jail, Giacomo Casanova seeks refuge in the Italian village of Bolzano, where he once again embarks on a campaign of seduction, until the notorious lover meets his match at the hands of the woman who will ultimately defeat him. 75,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"Scintillating. . . . An intricate duel of wits. . . . Casanova in Bolzano provides posthumous evidence of Marai's neglected brilliance." -Chicago Tribune

"A novel of philosophical adventure. . . . Suspenseful, ornate, discursive to the verge of synaptic collapse (ours), and witty to the occasional verge of terror. . . . Ingenious."
-The New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

Sándor Márai was born in Kassa, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900, and died in San Diego, California, in 1989. He rose to fame as one of the leading literary novelists in Hungary in the 1930s. Profoundly antifascist, he survived the war, but persecution by the Communists drove him from the country in 1948, first to Italy, then to the United States. His novel Embers was published for the first time in English in 2001.

Sándor Márai’s Embers is available in Vintage paperback.

Translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0375413375
• ISBN 13: 9780375413377
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294