Casanova in Bolzano

Fiction & Literature, Historical, Thrillers, Mystery & Suspense
Cover of the book Casanova in Bolzano by Sandor Marai, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: Sandor Marai ISBN: 9781400043736
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: November 9, 2004
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Sandor Marai
ISBN: 9781400043736
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: November 9, 2004
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

Another rediscovered masterpiece from the Hungarian novelist whose Embersbecame an international bestseller—a sensuous, suspenseful, aphoristic novel about the world’s most notorious seducer and the encounter that changes him forever. In 1756 Giacomo Casanova escapes from a Venetian prison and resurfaces in the Italian village of Bolzano. Here he receives an unwelcome visitor: the aging but still fearsome Duke of Parma, who years before had defeated Casanova in a duel over a ravishing girl named Francesca and spared his life on condition that he never see her again. Now the duke has taken Francesca as his wife—and intercepted a love letter from her to his old rival. Rather than kill Casanova on the spot, he makes him a startling offer, one that is logical, perverse, and irresistible. Turning an historical episode into a dazzling fictional exploration of the clasp of desire and death, Casanova in Bolzano is further proof that Sándor Márai is one of the most distinctive voices of the twentieth century.

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Another rediscovered masterpiece from the Hungarian novelist whose Embersbecame an international bestseller—a sensuous, suspenseful, aphoristic novel about the world’s most notorious seducer and the encounter that changes him forever. In 1756 Giacomo Casanova escapes from a Venetian prison and resurfaces in the Italian village of Bolzano. Here he receives an unwelcome visitor: the aging but still fearsome Duke of Parma, who years before had defeated Casanova in a duel over a ravishing girl named Francesca and spared his life on condition that he never see her again. Now the duke has taken Francesca as his wife—and intercepted a love letter from her to his old rival. Rather than kill Casanova on the spot, he makes him a startling offer, one that is logical, perverse, and irresistible. Turning an historical episode into a dazzling fictional exploration of the clasp of desire and death, Casanova in Bolzano is further proof that Sándor Márai is one of the most distinctive voices of the twentieth century.

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