Marginalia on Casanova by Szentkuthy, Miklós

Marginalia on Casanova (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781967751693)

Vendor: Miklós Szentkuthy
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Format: Hardcover
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Marginalia on Casanova by Szentkuthy, Miklós

Marginalia on Casanova

$100.00
Marginalia on Casanova by Szentkuthy, Miklós

Marginalia on Casanova

$100.00
Format: Hardcover
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A philosopher in the guise of a rake. In this wild, dazzling work of literary reinvention, Hungarian modernist Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova's memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling meditation on eros, memory, disguise, vanity, and the metaphysics of seduction.

Blending fiction, philosophy, and improvisation, Marginalia on Casanova is less a commentary than an ecstatic interruption--part reverie, part performance, part private theatre of ideas. Szentkuthy's prose is electric, erratic, and baroque, drawing comparisons to Joyce, Borges, and Pater, but like nothing else in modern literature. First published in 1939, it launched a one-man avant-garde in Budapest and remains one of the most intoxicating debuts of the twentieth century.

Author: Miklós Szentkuthy
ISBN-10: 1967751692
ISBN-13: 9781967751693
Publisher: Eris
Language: English
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
By Miklós Szentkuthy
By Miklós Szentkuthy
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Miklós Szentkuthy (1908-1988) was a Hungarian writer, translator, and literary visionary whose work defied categories.

Mixing philosophy, fiction, and autobiography, he created one of the most ambitious and idiosyncratic bodies of work in 20th-century European literature.

Best known for his St. Orpheus Breviary and Marginalia on Casanova, Szentkuthy wrote with baroque intensity, intellectual playfulness, and a fearless disregard for convention.

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