Casanova: more than a serial seducer
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Rousseau's confessions invented what a new name had to be created for autobiography, which did not exist till the nineteenth century as a word. casinova thought rousseu was kind ofa not really vealing the truth about himself, i was inspired to do better. He fills his account with all the the rich details of what it was like to be in constantinople as a young man,. Or in corfu, or in madrid, ah, and what the cult was like. And he never tried to learn english. He thought it was hopeless. Ah, partly because he was very witty, and he said, i can never make people laugh in a language i can
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