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2.0 out of 5 stars
Conversations? Monologues more likely.,
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This review is from: Conversations in Bolzano (Paperback)
Readers of Marai's masterpiece Embers (see my review) may expect lengthy, unrealistic, but totally gripping dialogues in this work also; but whereas that artifice worked very well in the other book, here it is for the most part tedious and repetitive. The central monologue, 60 pages long, is an almost uninterrupted one, with paragraphs of eight or eleven pages, and only the last monologue, which runs for some 37 pages, builds up a powerful momentum and develops a psychologically profound analysis of Casanova's personality - and perhaps of the personalities of other people who are afraid of committing themselves to truly loving relationships. I was several times tempted to abandon the book before I had reached this penultimate chapter. In the end I was glad I did not.
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Conversations in Bolzano by Sandor Marai (Paperback - July 31, 2005)
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