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Casanova in Bohemia
a novel
By Codrescu, Andrei
- ISBN
- 978-0-68486-800-4
- Publisher
- New York : Free Press, c2002.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2002
As in his earlier novel, The Blood Countess, Codrescu here brings to life a historical character, depicting Casanova the man, the myth, and his times. In the 1790s, Giacomo Casanova is an old man living at the castle of Count Waldstein at Dux near Prague and working as a cataloging librarian in the count's library. In conversations with a young woman servant he has befriended, he relates episodes from his past life a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
