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Byline: Adena Spingarn
He may be based only loosely on his namesake, but the ladykiller in Sandor Marai's Casanova in Bolzano (Knopf) has one thing in common with his historical counterpart-he is always looking for love but plays the game too well to find it. Newly translated into English from the original Hungarian, this witty yet contemplative 1940 novel is filled with wry aphorisms, as when a cuckolded nobleman tells Casanova, "A kiss is always virtuous but a word about a kiss is always shameful." Recently ...