Casanova the Irresistible

Praise for the French edition: ""Sollers wants his hero to shock us still, challenge our orthodoxies, scoff at our timidity and political correctness. A very readable, often perceptive response to the Histoire de ma vie which consciously sets out to tell us about our own prejudices and preoccupations as much as those of his subject.""--Times Literary Supplement ""Our thanks to Philippe Sollers for having restored to us an ungraspable and unpredictable Casanova.""--Le Nouvel Observateur ""Fills a gap between the less accessible scholarly studies and the popular, often inaccurate, literature on Casanova. If this territory has already been well-traveled, a new perspective and innovative approach make it seem fresh and appealing.""--Eighteenth Century Studies ""A compelling read and an opportunity to reflect on the mix of genius and celebrity that certainly defines the greatest of literary and theatrical personalities of our own as well as times past. The overall translation is superb.""--Clorinda Donato, coeditor of Discourses of Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Enlightenment