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Giovanni Giacomo Casanova has lived quite a long timethe standards of his time - more than 50 years (1725 - 1778 years). For the whole world his name became a household name, and all thanks to his active work and his writing talent. However, apart from his memoirs, he did not publish anything significant, having written more than 20 works that did not bring him fame and respect. His memoirs brought him scandalous fame for the exceptional multi-facetedness of his intimate life. An Austrian writer who devoted several monographs to Casanova, Stefan Zweig wrote in one of his essays that "since then neither a poet nor a philosopher has created a more entertaining novel than his life, nor an image more fantastic. "

Creation of Memoirs

Memoirs were written in French anddescribed, as the author wrote, "useless" life of Giacomo until 1774, although the full title of the book "History of my life until 1797" (Histoire de ma vie). The thing is that by the time the author died, his memoirs were not finished, and Casanova himself doubted the advisability of this kind of publication. In a shortened version, the book was published in the period 1822-1829 gg. The latest additions to the "Book of My Life" were introduced in 1797, when Casanova had already moved away from secular life and vegetated a librarian in the castle of Count Valdstein. In his memoirs, he wrote that "the only remedy that did not allow anyone to go insane" was work on memoirs.

Only ten years after the author's death his book was published by a German publisher and in German.

Edition

The Russian history of the publication of Memoirs can beginfrom the magazine "The Son of the Fatherland", where in 1823 excerpts were published from a German publication titled "Paris of the XVIII Century from Casanova's Notes". Later, Dostoevsky also published excerpts from his memoirs in his journal Vremya, and in 1902, under the editorship of Chuikov, the first two books of memoirs were published, in which all the amorous adventures of Casanova were reduced. In 1927 the first volume, The Story of My Life Giacomo Casanova, but the release of the following volumes was banned by censorship. The full translation edition was published in Russia only in 1990. From modern publications, it is possible to mention such books as "Casanova. History of a myth "by M.Gubareva. In 2009, the publishing house M. Zakharov released the full work of Jakombo Casanova's "The Story of My Life." In addition, the book can be read in the electronic version of Casanova online libraries, for example, in the public domain, but in English is represented: Casanova, Giacomo. History of My Life. A translation reprint is stored in New York at the Public Library.

Edvard Radzinsky in the publishing house AST in 2011 published a book "Mysteries of History" about the life and work of D. Kazanov.

Casanova J. "The Story of My Life" in translation from the French I. Staff and A. Stroev publishing house "Moscow Worker" is available in the network only in parts.