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Kiss and tell.(Casanova in Bolzano)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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| November 01, 2004 | Spingarn, Adena | COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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