Casanova : The Man Who Really Loved Women
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. Item #1551 8vo. 215 x 150 mm., [8 ½ x 5 ¾ inches]. xvi + 256 pp., including Appendices: Notes; Index. Quarter-bound in publishers’ black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and green paper over boards with a gilt “C” stamped onto the upper cover; unclipped illustrated dust jacket. Books is As New: a seemingly unread copy. First Farrar, Straus and Giroux Edition. Lydia Flem (b. 1952) is a Belgian writer, psychoanalyst, and photographer. She has written several works on Freud and Freudian psychoanalysis as well as memoirs and literary criticism. The present work was originally published in French in 1995 as Casanova ou l’exercice du bonheur and is translated into English here by Catherine Temerson. The book reexamines the life of Giacomo Casanova and argues for a renewed understanding of who he was and how we should relate to and value his philosophy as documented in his History of My Life. Rather than being someone who used women, Flem argues that Casanova indeed loved women in a way that transcended the narrow boundaries of eighteenth century Europe. An original work of biography, written in an engaging narrative style.
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