{"product_id":"2026200007518-secondhand-adepts-in-self-portraiture-casanova-stendhal-tolstoy","title":"Adepts In Self-Portraiture: Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA masterwork of literary criticism and psychological biography, Stefan Zweig's Adepts in Self-Portraiture: Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy examines three towering figures of autobiographical writing, arguing that each man's self-portrait reveals as much about the art of confession as it does about the confessor himself. With characteristic elegance and penetrating insight, Zweig illustrates how Casanova's memoirs embody a shameless, sensual celebration of life, how Stendhal's introspective writings uncover a man perpetually at war with his own ego, and how Tolstoy's moral confessions chronicle a soul tormented by the gap between spiritual ideal and human frailty. Zweig presents each subject not merely as a writer but as an artist of the self, whose compulsion to record their own lives transforms autobiography into a form of high literary art. Written with the warmth and psychological acuity that define Zweig's best work, the essays carry a tone that is both intimate and authoritative, drawing readers into a rich meditation on vanity, truth, and the human need for self-understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887900012763,"sku":"2026200007518-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/54504e34-3fa1-48e8-bd53-66d74c330f73.png?v=1781748382","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200007518-secondhand-adepts-in-self-portraiture-casanova-stendhal-tolstoy","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}