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(3.01) - 407 listener ratings
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Another rediscovered masterpiece from the author of Embers: an erotically charged novel about Casanova's fateful encounter with the woman who finally defeats him.
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"An extraordinary study of the multi-faceted nature of love, desire, possession, humiliation, just about everything that can unite, or not, two people. I loved it, and preferred it to Embers, which I also liked very much but found its teasingly delayed denouements slightly ponderous..."
— Charles (5 out of 5 stars)
Casanova in Bolzano Listener Reviews
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" the best book I've ever read "
— Vicky, 1/9/2014 -
" My fifth translation "
— Eman, 12/26/2013 -
" Possibly a 3.5 - not as good as Embers which I could hardly put down. "
— Jennifer, 12/10/2013 -
" I couldn't finish the book, I tried, I really did because not finishing a book is sacrilegious to me but the long, unnecessary rhetoric in this book made it tedious and unbareable. There's no real story line, it seemed that the author just wanted to get his ideas out there and thought mascarading it as a novel would be a good idea. It's not!! "
— Lua, 10/15/2013 -
" I love the writing here, but the plot moves too glacially for me. His Memoir of Hungary is so much more vivid and relevant. "
— Meryl, 10/3/2013 -
" I was so taken by 'Embers' that I bought the first Marai book that I could find. So far it's a great read. The honesty and humor Marai gives to his characters makes it hard to put the book down. "
— Lew, 9/29/2013 -
" Love and life "
— Dan, 9/29/2013 -
" Amazing insights via almost psychological analysis and deliciously crafted long monologues of the concept of love atoms the power of ego. A masterpiece. "
— Marie-charlotte, 9/26/2013 -
" Boring monologues "
— Jack, 9/17/2013 -
" A modernist perspective on Casanova as an older, uglier, yet continually philandering version of himself. This novel will twist your expectations of Casanova so much that you will wonder why this novel hasn't been turned into a movie yet. "
— Kat, 7/23/2013 -
" 3.8 A pleasurable novella (really, just the longest short story I have ever read) about the limits of the Casanova legend. A bit long-winded and monologue-y, in the Borges-Calvino spectrum, but delightfully so. Worth it for the prices. "
— Eoin, 6/26/2011 -
" Oh my this was wordy! Not what I was expecting after I read Embers(loved it!) a few years ago. "
— Stacey, 3/31/2011 -
" It was a bore to read. Way too many monologues and it was far from sensuous, suspenseful and dazzling, as described on the blurb. "
— Lina, 5/27/2010 -
" Some paragraphs were really brilliant however endless pages of conversations and monologues make reader feel sleepy. This technique was not new and I think Marai did not use it well in this novel. "
— Quynh, 12/11/2009
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Simon Prebble, a British-born performer, is a stage and television actor and veteran narrator of some three hundred audiobooks. As one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices, he has received thirty-seven Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie in 2010. He lives in New York.