"The great virtue of Mr. Damrosch's biography is that, while never losing critical distance, he fully succeeds in communicating that 'vivid presentness, ' that 'joyful eagerness' for life, which is what keeps us reading Casanova--and reading about him."--Gregory Dowling, Wall Street Journal"Damrosch's biography is undoubtedly a huge achievement, at once erudite and vivid. By the end I was almost convinced that Casanova was worthy of such prodigious scholarship."--John Carey, Sunday Times"[A] stern, but measured book . . . In his stylish, insightful and, yes, one must admit, sexy biography, Damrosch gives us the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly."--Laura Freeman, The Times"Colourful and entertaining. . . . The author is clear-eyed about Casanova's faults."--The Economist"There have been many biographies of Casanova before, some of them very good, although they have tended to be thesis driven . . . [Damrosch] is in turn clear that he is writing a post MeToo Casanova. At the same time, he is also keen that we should understand just what a valuable document Histoire is for scholars working on the 18th century."--Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian"Over the years [Damrosch] has earned a reputation not for being a popularizer, exactly, but for writing serious, well-researched books that also appeal to a general audience, and Adventurer, handsomely illustrated with photographs and reproductions, is no exception. It's careful without being fussy, learned without being ponderous. Like Casanova himself, Damrosch knows how to tell a good story. Unlike Casanova, he also knows when enough is enough."--Charles McGrath, Hudson Review"A nuanced, deftly contextualized biography of an adventurer, an opportunist, and a man of voracious appetites . . . another top-notch work from Damrosch."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "An eye-opening and well-informed study of an 'extraordinary character' in all his darkness and brilliance."--Publishers Weekly"Damrosch's biography condenses a vast trove of Casanoviana into a well-researched, four-hundred-page narrative that is most engaging on its subject's catholic interests as an intellectual and on the milieus he traversed as an itinerant charlatan."--Judith Thurman, New Yorker"Beautifully conceived and shaped. . . . A page-turning account that penetrates the character of a most exceptional human being who was both a product of his age and an astute observer of its mores."--Arthur Holye, New York Journal of Books"Leo Damrosch is a professor emeritus of literature with an emphasis on the 18th century. And he reads Casanova post-Weinstein, so to speak--but not sourly or dogmatically, instead confidently, inspired, admiringly and at the same time critically, passionately. And he can write brilliantly too."--Jean-Martin Büttner, Basler Zeitung (Basel, Switzerland) "Casanova's life was in the best of hands with Leo Damrosch's erudition. He follows Casanova's escapades and escapes as a vertiginous heroic story. Out of Venice we are thrown into an experiment with the eighteenth century, its tastes, and transgressions, revealing a surprising 'book of life.'"--Pierre Saint-Amand, author of Suite libertine: Vies du XVIIIe siècle"A pleasure to read, remarkably clear and readable, engaging, vivid, informative--in short, an excellent biography that both delights and instructs."--April Alliston, Princeton University "The name Casanova has become synonymous with serial seduction--hardly a model in the age of #MeToo. The excellence of Leo Damrosch's energetic biography is that it reveals so many other dimensions of this remarkable man: pioneering autobiographer, questioner of received ideas, traveler through high culture and low."--Jonathan Bate, author of Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch"Fully succeeds in communicating that 'vivid presentnes
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