Don Juan

No cover

Lord Byron: Don Juan (2009, The Floating Press)

E-book

English language

Published Aug. 8, 2009 by The Floating Press.

ISBN:
978-1-77541-570-1
Copied ISBN!

View on OpenLibrary

In his satiric poem Don Juan, Lord Byron refigures the legend as a man easily seduced by women, rather than as a dangerous womanizer. When the first two cantos were anonymously published in 1819, they were criticized for being immoral. They were also immensely popular. Byron only completed 16 cantos, leaving the 17th unwritten when he died in 1824. Don Juan is commonly considered to be his masterpiece.

18 editions

None

This is a wild read. Byron is just all over the place. I don't understand half the stuff he's satirizing but his writing is just so lyrical and chill that it's fun to just kind of bob along with the words.

The plot, uh, exists, sort of. Reading about Juan's exploits is fun for the couple of stanzas at a time that Byron can focus on him.

The incompleteness is... unfortunate. It's not that he had drafts left or anything, the story literally just ends on a cliffhanger. So that's weird.

It's just a bizarre read. I was very into it. Byron is weird, I like him.

avatar for phoenixashes76

rated it

avatar for Alexander

rated it

avatar for Shtakser

rated it

avatar for cessie

rated it

avatar for TimMason

rated it