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Casanovas Heimfahr
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TISANOVA
The Man of a Thousand Escapades
Has One Last Fling
Casanova“
camtg. hr. Arthur
Schnitzler: Tho# Seltr Co.
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nova’s Memoirs##ther have we. We
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or his
vor. Moreover, he was
gabond and autoblographer.
In chis volume, Ntr. Schnitäler takes
pthe story where the mémoirs stop
and carrles Casanova back agaln to his
beloved Venice from which he has long
been an exlle But before that day of
homecoming, Casanova has one last
grand adventure. It Tas an amoroun
Intrigue of course. Chsanova was now
somewhere in the middle 50’s, but they
were not the#faltering 50“ for him.
While awalting his call back to Venice,
passing his time by writing a
oagainst Voltaire, he yielded
hat reiuctantly to an Invitation
home of his old friend Ollvio.
d befriended Olivio and his wife—
tter, as well as her mother, nad
among Casanova's mistresses be¬
fore Olivio married her and now Olivlo
was prosperous and had a beautiful
home.
Dhe love afffir, if such it may be
called, which inarked that brief vislt.
involved a guest at Olivlo's home, the
beautiful and highly intellectual Marco¬
lina. How Casanova gained his ends
makes a story that Schnitzler tells with
an exqulsite artistry—a style in which
the 18th dentury quality is admirably
preserved by the tranalators. As
trivial incident in Casanova’s visit to
Olivio's home, he added a third genera¬
tion of the family to his list of con¬
questa, and another duel to bis record.
Not a story to be Judged by the canons
used in Judging stories of men and man¬
ners today, but one worthy of applausa
fe the subtle portrait that the author
s. In view of the hèro’s activities,
howeger, we cannot understand why the
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