Word: casanovas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Memoirs of Casanova, Vol. II, translated by Arthur Machen. The 18th century's most dedicated amoralist tells tall tales of his libertine youth...
...Memoirs of Casanova, Vol. II, translated by Arthur Machen. The 18th century's most dedicated amoralist tells tall tales of his libertine youth...
...Memoirs of Casanova, Vol. II, translated by Arthur Machen. In the best English translation to date, the grand old libertine tells of adventures that would reduce today's flanneled philanderers to cardiac cases...
...Memoirs of Casanova, Vol. II, translated by Arthur Machen. In the best English translation to date, the grand old libertine tells with wit and taste of adventures that would reduce today's flanneled philanderers to cardiac cases...
There is no doubt that Casanova's Memoirs ranks with the great literary confessions, notably Rousseau's and Cellini's. The trouble with confessions is that the author, no matter how detached in manner, implicitly pleads for the reader's understanding. Somehow neither 20th century sociology, which might remark on the extraordinary tolerance of Casanova's era, nor 20th century psychology, which might speculate about the libertine's compulsion "to prove something," really equips the reader to understand Casanova...