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    Casanova in Bolzano
    Casanova in Bolzano
    Casanova in Bolzano
    Audiobook8 hours

    Casanova in Bolzano

    Written by Sandor Marai

    Narrated by Simon Prebble

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Another rediscovered masterpiece from the author of Embers: an erotically charged novel about Casanova's fateful encounter with the woman who finally defeats him.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateNov 1, 2009
    ISBN9781615730490
    Casanova in Bolzano

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    • 5/5
      I am usually very wary of historical fiction, I've only come across a few good ones, but this one, the very first I've read of this author, is going into my top favorites. I am currently reading the Casanova Memoirs, and I feel the author has portrayed him beautifully. In Marai's work, Casanova is a character to be pitied because he believes he cannot have true love nor does he think it exists. At the same time he is to be admired because of his confidence and philosophy on life. Our main lady, Francesca, is also a great character. She's not the feminist-type, the "I don't need a man!" sort, as she is still a lady of the 18th century. However, she is neither submissive nor passive. Marai's writing is like art, words are chosen very carefully, and a character's thoughts can go on and on with no periods. Yet Marai amazingly manages to make this style appealing instead of annoying. This is also one of the few Casanova books, biographical or fiction, that I feel does justice to history's favorite lover. I'd recommend it to anyone.
    • 4/5
      3.8 A pleasurable novella (really, just the longest short story I have ever read) about the limits of the Casanova legend. A bit long-winded and monologue-y, in the Borges-Calvino spectrum, but delightfully so. Worth it for the prices.
    • 2/5
      Two years ago I was hunting a complete Memoirs of Casanova while in a Powell’s in Chicago. I asked the associate if there were any in stock. He pointed me to a Classics section where a Penguin single volume abridgement sat, lacking any immediate street cred. I asked if there weren’t any complete sets elsewhere in the store. You don’t need the set, the man snapped, all the good stuff is in there.

      I was likewise looking for good stuff as I finished this novel this evening. My verdict: not so good. Maybe 2.5 stars. The difficulty is largely of my own origin. Marai’s novel is a maudlin minature revealing a certain resonance and discretion not normally associated w/ Casanova.

      (am I accusing Marai of revisionism? I 'm not sure.)

      That said, Casanova in Balzano is only a floating episode, lacking continuity and proving to be bereft of empathetic charcters. No reader should care about any one in this novel. The characters exist for a pair of conversations, each punctuated with a lengthy oration best forgotten.
    • 3/5
      I liked it, nothing great, but an entertaining read in parts. Nothing much I want to say about it either.
    • 3/5
      Casanova in Bolzano by Sandor Marai Marai, is a Hungarian novelist, who has been compared to Gabriel García Márquez, I disagee, Márquez is the better writer. This novel was translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes. The main character Giacomo Casanova having just escaped a Venetian jail (Leads Prison) with defrocked priest Balbi, finds himself in a Italian village - Bolzano - where years earlier he had fought a duel with the Duke of Parma over the beautiful 15 year old girl, Francesca. In a inn in the village Giacomo provides us with interior monologue that while often beautiful and insightful continues for page after page becoming very tedious and repetitive. He also periodically dispenses advice to the villagers in his 'surgery.'The Duke of Parma brings Giacomo, Francesca's letter containing the single sentence "I must see you." And Marai then gives us page after page of Francesca's dialogue that once again has some beautiful lines and true psychological insight, but also becomes tedious and repetitive. Yes, the novel contains much beautiful prose, but I found it very tedious and repetitive.
    • 4/5
      Translated from Hungarian. Based on the real life adventures of Casanova. Makes it clear that the Casanova was trapped by his inability to actually fall in love--the central irony of his life. Enjoyable read.
    • 4/5
      Marai has a way of writing for a long time about the smallest of events. He does it well, though, and the result in hypnotic. The book has a number of interesting twists and subverts the usual male/female dynamic in a satisfactory way.
    • 4/5
      A study of desire, seperating what makes people attractive apart from their physical beauty.