By Mikl S. Szentkuthy, Tim Wilkinson, Zeno Bianu
Marginalia on Casanova, the 1st quantity of the St. Orpheus Breviary, is Miklos Szentkuthy's synthesis of 2,000 years of ecu tradition. St. Orpheus is Szentkuthy's Virgil, an omniscient, poet who courses us now not via hell, yet via all of recorded background, delusion, faith, and literature, albeit reimagined as St. Orpheus metamorphosizes himself into kings, popes, saints, tyrants, and artists. instantly pagan and Christian, Greek and Hebrew, Asian and eu, St. Orpheus is a mosaic of historical past and mankind in a single supra-person and veil, an unending sequence of mask and personae, humanity in its protean, futural form, an regularly altering functionality of discourse, textual content, delusion, & mentalite. via St. Orpheus' approach, disparate moments of background develop into synchronic, are juggled to bare, ironically, their mutual distinction and crucial similarity. "Orpheus wandering within the infernal regions," says Szentkuthy, "is the perennial image of the brain misplaced amid the enigmas of truth. the purpose of the paintings is, at the one hand, to symbolize the truth of historical past with the maximum attainable precision, and at the different, to teach, during the mutations of the eu spirit, the entire uncertainties of contemplative guy, the transiency of feelings and the sterility of philosophical systems." Marginalia on Casanova relives the despiritualization of the most protagonist's sensual adventures, notwithstanding it's much less his intercourse lifestyles & extra his highbrow challenge, the only determinant of his being, that's the focal point of this mesmeric e-book. via his personal glittering institutions and extensively spanning array of metaphors, Szentkuthy analyses and perspectives the 18th century and its inspiration of homogeneity from the vantage aspect of the twentieth century, with the complete armor of somebody who was once, might be, one of many final Hungarian Europeans. whereas a statement on Casanova's memoirs, it's also Szentkuthy's personal philosophy of affection. ardour, playfulness, irony, and an entire gamut of protean metamorphoses are what symbolize Marginalia on Casanova, a piece during which readers will adventure either profundity and a taking to wing of essay-writing that's intellectually radiant and that's as sensual and provocative as a gondola trip with Casanova
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What is the Roman heritage! What did the Goths and other Germans contribute to the mixture? How about those who paved the way for the French Revolution? What about his father’s grandee family? The money-grubbing, rapacious, sophistic shysters. Here all possible ethics had to be examined in space and time, and only after that could one slap an only half-legible skew-whiff stamp of a nullus nullificatus on an enacting clause (full of subclauses). When the father learnt about his sons investigations, viler than even the curse of leprosy, into ‘final causes,’ it was all he could do not to run him through in the university’s assembly hall (a fine gentry comedy): whereafter Alfonso followed his intellectual dabbling in secret, in the same way as fellows pursued their sexual lives, and already as a law student he was an unbeatable legal adviser to a range of products across the social scale, from the Vatican to Don Quixote feudal puppets.
That is what history is too; that is the darkest instinct of life. That and art. The darkest and also the loneliest. If I were not myself descended from an actor ancestor, I would not believe in my existence. Reality and theatre: unambiguous. Which is why it is so much an absolute law-book and Domesday Book that Casanova’s memoirs open with that alpha and omega without which there is nothing: actor, actor, actor. 2. {7} If you wish to live, then you can only be an actor, a comedian, like the gods and the cosmos; once you have started to live, then you must forthwith bear a duality of life, of humanity, that can never be elucidated: the clarity of meaning and the eternal hocus-pocus of meaninglessness, Locke and the witches, wise women, exorcists and evil Spirits of the Venetian suburbs of Murano and Burano.
What is the Roman heritage! What did the Goths and other Germans contribute to the mixture? How about those who paved the way for the French Revolution? What about his father’s grandee family? The money-grubbing, rapacious, sophistic shysters. Here all possible ethics had to be examined in space and time, and only after that could one slap an only half-legible skew-whiff stamp of a nullus nullificatus on an enacting clause (full of subclauses). When the father learnt about his sons investigations, viler than even the curse of leprosy, into ‘final causes,’ it was all he could do not to run him through in the university’s assembly hall (a fine gentry comedy): whereafter Alfonso followed his intellectual dabbling in secret, in the same way as fellows pursued their sexual lives, and already as a law student he was an unbeatable legal adviser to a range of products across the social scale, from the Vatican to Don Quixote feudal puppets.