[Heteronym]

I'm now haflway through Sándor Márai's Casanova in Bolzano: the novel takes some time to find a plot, but the prose has an elegance and rhytm that makes reading it enjoyable.

The author claims the novel is a complete fiction about Casanova's life, inventing a new story for the famous lover after he made a real-life escape from a Venetian prison. Thankfully the novel has been sparse in details about the protagonist's past, making it less impenetrable than most historical novels that deal with real people.

Although I've acquired this novel in English, I'm glad to see that he has several novels translated in Portuguese; depending on how the rest of the novel goes, Mr. Márai may be another name for me to add to my writers list