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CASANOVAS HOMECOMING
By ARTHUR SCHNITZLER
ASANOVA, the most piquant figure of a piquant century.
the man of the thousand amours and thousand escapades,
needs no restoration. In the twelve volumes of his
Memoirs he has left perhaps the completest, frankest acconnt
that a person has ever written of himself, and certainly, as
Arthur Symons says, Lthe most valuable document which we
possess on the society of the eighteenth century. A scholar, an
adventurer, perhaps a Cabalist, a busy stirrer in politics, a
gamester, one'born for the fairer sex,' as he tells us, and born
also to be a vagabond; this man who is remembered now for
his written acconnt of his own life, was that rarest kind of
autobiographer, one who did not live to write, but wrote because
he had lived.? Casanova, therefore, needs no restoration cover¬
ing the period of his Memoirs: Arthur Schnitzler, however, has
gone on with him after the Memoirs stop; he has complefed him
in this novel.
The great Viennese reader of character has given us an imag¬
inative portrait of Casanova as he figures in one last imaginary
amorous intrigue. Casanova now Stands complete. No one hut
Arthur Schnitzler could have drawn this subtle portrait of a
man of another peried, at the“dangerous age'’ in a man’s life,
no one but a writer with Schnitzler’s combination of fine old¬
world culture, exquisite, faultless artistry. and wizardlike insiglit
into the human psyche.
The Neie Vork Erening Post says:
*His story is written in the strie of the eighteenth cen¬
tury and reminds one of ihe best originals, even surpasses
them in brilliance of technique.??
The eighteenth centurv quality has been preserved in the
translation of the accomplished translators, Eden and Cedar
Paul.“ know of no other such unsparing self-fagellation,?
the New Vork Erening Post goes on to say. “no other such in¬
stance of merciless soul vivisection, no such confession as this
novel of Schnitzler's.“
Heyiood Bronn:
“1 glorions piece of work.“
Cerl Von Doren:
The best novel published in America in 1921.5
THOMAS SELTZER
FIVE WEST FIFTIETH STREET, NEW YORK
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