At fifty-three, Giacomo Casanova is poor, fading and desperate for permission to return to his native Venice. While waiting on the Council’s reply he stays with an old friend’s family, where he meets the young Marcolina, a clever woman who studies mathematics and shows no interest in him, and his wounded vanity drives him toward a shameful deception.
A short, unsettling study of age and desire by the Viennese master of psychological fiction. Download the free EPUB.