Giacomo Casanova [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… worlds that he frequented. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Keywords Aristocracy Diplomacy Finance Gambling Memoirs Networks Theatre In his novel Icosameron (1787), organized as a narrative deployed in twenty evenings in good … he recollects having met, an extraordinary feat even in a genre reputed for focusing on sociability, such as personal memoirs. 1 . Giacomo Casanova, Icosameron ou Histoire d’Edouard et d’Elisabeth qui passèrent quatre-vingt-un ans chez les … de connaître les hommes en les faisant parler’ (III, 500). Such conversations, often wittily reproduced in his memoirs, were not only the core of his sociability, but also the kernel of his future writing. Already middle-aged, after …
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