Godfrey’s Reviews > Casanova's Homecoming > Status Update

Being who he is not (old age, identity tricks to have Marcolina), who he was never (literate lumière), and reputation over man (not handsome but infamous, winning the middle-aged), force Casanova into self-estrangement. Marcolina, his Madame de Stäel, is a symbolic redemption; a replica of Voltaire's mistress... everything appears arranged around becoming/dismissing/imitating Voltaire. The literate is the sexual.