I loved the story! However, if after 150 pages of this book of excerpts you find yourself attracted to this engaging personality, stop and switch to the real thing.Every Goodreads member should make an effort to familiarize himself or herself with this remarkable 18th Century gadfly who knew everyone from Voltaire to Mozart. I've been proven so, so very wrong. Giacomo Casanova's abridged autobiography (the full-length version is many volumes) is a fascinating, albeit frustrating, rollick through 18th century European society. His main book Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), part autobiography and part memoir, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the Histoire de ma vie, Histoire de ma vie, Giacomo Casanova, Gallimard. There is sex of course, but there is also humor, action, and adventure. (Pun intended)From the begining if you are not ready to spend a lot of time reading an interesting story or if you get easily bored don't even try to begin to read this book.From the begining if you are not ready to spend a lot of time reading an interesting story or if you get easily bored don't even try to begin to read this book.I came to this looking for a quotation.
Result: hammered! Welcome back. There is sex of course, but there is also humor, action, and adventure. But there's much more to him than that, and if sex is often his downfall, it's certainly not all that this memoir is about. This is not the edition I am reading, as mine appears to run much longer. Histoire de ma vie.Agrégation de lettres modernes 2021 Œuvres Édition au programme Histoire de ma vie. This book is a marathon. He had adventure after adventure. At 2000+ pages it must be considered incomplete; there are numerous unfulfilled promises to come back to a certain event or person at a later stage in the biography.Utterly fascinating Memoirs, well deserving twelve volumes. Even now, his name is familiar to people who have no idea he was actually a real person.Talk about wild. Casanova is quite blunt and honest about his disposition: he's a slave of his passion, driven from one conquest to another and constantly failing; no remorse about several broken promises (his conscience is regularly lulled by a "favorable" scheme for the victim). I came to this looking for a quotation. 2015 - Histoire de ma vie, tome II. 1 of the Memoirs of Duc De Saint-Simon, I enjoyed this even more. Paris : Robert Laffont, 2013. He was a philosopher, an adventurer..

What an interesting man, what an adventurous life. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Fuck you is what I say to that. I admit to being totally taken in by the author's charming and humble preface to his own work. I look forward to reading this on vacation and disappearing into the world of the 18th century--the courts of Louis XIV and Catherine the Great--through the eyes of one its truly notorious personalities. You'll find everything, in this book.
Casanova is quite blunt and honest about his disposition: he's a slave of his passion, driven from one conquest to another and constantly failing; no remorse about several broken promises (his conscience is regularly lulled by a "favorable" scheme for the victim). Il existe également d'autres livres de Salomon Maïmon. Since he lived a life richer and stranger than most fictions, the tale of his own adventures is his most compelling story, but his memoir remained-at twelve volumes-unfinished at the time of his death. His memoirs could be titled "Bad advice for a good life. Capable of laughing at himself (always a good point, as far as I'm concerned), Casanova is also quite proud of himself, but never to the point of becoming conceited. Reproduction parole interdite sans autorisation. Because his entire life story consumes more than 1,000,000 words, or roughly 16 standard length novels.I have read the complete set, several times and it astonishes friends when I say that. Be the first to ask a question about Histoire de ma vie Of course this is an abridged version: the original manuscript of Casanova's memoir takes 14 volumes, so who knows what amazing episodes are missing from this edition! As much as I enjoyed Vol. I look forward to reading this on vacation and disappearing into the world of the 18th century--the courts of Louis XIV and Catherine the Great--through the eyes of one its truly notorious personalities. The entire story of Casanova's life is about seven volumes. Talk about wild. If you enjoyed the It's just so good. Though he tried to write novels and plays, his greatest achievement was in the life he led, and the autobiography he wrote..Casanova at the age of 73 writes the story of his life. Dux, 1789-1798 De juin 1763 à juillet 1766, Casanova parcourt l'Europe du Nord : Angleterre, Allemagne ...C'est l'histoire de la vie Le cycle éternel Qu'un enfant béni, rend immortel La ronde infinie De ce cycle éternel C'est l'histoire, l'histoire de la vie.