[PDF] Conversations In Bolzano eBook

Author : Sándor Márai
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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It is midnight, October 31st 1758 and Giacomo Casanova has escaped from a Venetian prison after sixteen months consigned to darkness and the underworld. Shaking off the enforced solitude, Casanova makes his way to Bolzano - the small village where he was dealt a cruel hand. A place full of memories, Bolzano was the scene of a moonlit duel fought with the Duke of Parma when Casanova and he were both in pursuit of the beguiling Francesca. The quest was lost and Casanova was left with three scars above his heart and one option: he could live, but only on the condition he never saw Francesca again. But now Casanova is back having secured a loan from an old friend, and is determined to win this time whilst the Duke has an offer Casanova simply cannot refuse and that just might spell his undoing.

Author : Sandor Marai
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 2005-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0375712968

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Another rediscovered masterpiece from the Hungarian novelist whose Embers became 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.

Author : Malina Stefanovska
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1487534582

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Illuminating the legend that Giacomo Casanova singlehandedly created in his famous – and at times infamous – autobiography, The History of My Life, this book provides a timely reassessment of Casanova’s role and importance as an author of the European Enlightenment. From the margins of libertine authorship where he has been traditionally relegated, the various essays in this collection reposition Casanova at the heart of Enlightenment debates on medicine, sociability, gender, and writing. Based on new scholarship, this reappraisal of a key Enlightenment figure explores the period’s fascination with ethnography, its scientific societies, and its understanding of gender, medicine, and women. Casanova is here finally granted his rightful place in cultural and literary history, a place which explains his enduring yet controversial reputation as a figure of seduction and adventure.

Author : Juris Dilevko
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1598849093

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This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed. Organization is primarily by language, as language often reflects cultural cohesion better than national borders or geographies, but also by country and culture. In addition to contemporary titles, each chapter features a brief overview of earlier translated fiction from the group. The guide also provides in-depth bibliographic essays for each chapter that will enable librarians and library users to further explore the literature of numerous languages and cultural traditions.

Author : Karl Baedeker
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385389151

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 2024-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3382838176

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,72 MB
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385203457

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 36,38 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811215046

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From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize