Abstract
Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni's stylized Mémoires were written in French during his Parisian exile (1762-93). This article traces the conjoined motifs of exile and of ageing that course through these memoirs, positing that at their confluence there emerges a subliminal voice determined to terminate his lifelong exilic self-identification. Resolving to end narrative exile permits the aged Je to relax within his Parisian adopted home, thus fending off the dreaded exile of aged solitude. In celebrating his old age through narration of his memoirs, Je ultimately embraces the physically reduced sphere and the private existence of an everyday, urban octogenarian.
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