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Casanova: A Study in Self-Portraiture New Edition
Author(s): Stefan Zweig (Author), Cedar Paul (Translator), Eden Paul (Translator)
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication Date: 31 Aug. 1998
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 160 pages
- ISBN-10: 1901285189
- ISBN-13: 9781901285185
Book Description
This new edition of Stefan Zweig’s biographical essay, subtitled A Study in Self Portraiture, was originally dedicated to Maxim Gorky. Casanova, the Venetian who lived most of his life in exile from his beloved city, created his own myth which in turn is a reflection of the nature of the city itself. Imaginative writers, writes Zweig, rarely have a biography, and men who have biographies are only in exceptional circumstances able to write them … Casanova is a splendid, almost unique exception.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Zweig’s genius as a storyteller encompasses the brainy as well as those of average intelligence, the very rich and the desperately poor. He deserves to be famous again, and for good ― Times Literary Supplement
The most perceptive tribute yet paid to one of the greatest of all Venetians, a quintessentially Viennesse essay in psychoanalysis, yet which also seeks to guarantee the survival of art against the sophistications of the psychoanalytic technique — Jonathan Keates ―
SpectatorThere are many new books clamouring for attention – but then Pushkin Press publishes another translation of the Viennese master, Stefan Zweig, and everything contemporary gets pushed aside — Nicholas Lezard ―
The GuardianZweig is the most adult of writers; civilised, urbane, but never. aded or cynical; a realist who none the less believed in the possibility – the necessity – of empathy ―
The IndependentAbout the Author
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York-a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, Beware of Pity,and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.
