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Roberto Calasso
The skies shook, then came rains of fire. Yet Garuda, the big, black eagle, pierced through the walls of heaven to snatch away the soma. He had to. That was…
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With the same startling originality and brilliance that made his The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony a literary landmark, Calasso narrates the birth of one of the world’s great cultures…
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A book that begins before Adam and ends after us. In this magisterial work, figures of the Bible and its whole outline emerge in a new light: one that is…
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Originally published in Italian in 2017 by Adelphi Edizioni, Italy, as L'innominabile attuale – Title verso.
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An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great Flood
A long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood…
Roberto Calasso … tells the story of the eternal life of Utnapishtim, the savior of man, in the eleventh part of his great literary project –
An inspired and provocative exploration of mankind’s relationship with myth, the divine, and the idea of transformation –
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Presenting the stories of Zeus and Europa, Theseus and Ariadne, the birth of Athens and the fall of Troy, in all their variants, Calasso also uncovers the distant origins of…
From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony and Ka comes a stunning summation of Calasso’s lifelong study of the role of the gods in the…
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Focuses the ancient texts known as the Vedas. This volume explores the enigmatic web of ritual and myth that define the Vedas.
With the same narrative fecundity he brought to The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Calasso plunges Western readers into the consciousness of ancient India.
Originally published in Milaan by Adelphi Edizioni, 2002. First Spanish translation published in 2005.
Why does a form of terrorism that consists of isolated, random killings break out, where the victims can be as numerous as possible? In the first part of this book…
Myths, rites, constellations, poetry: Roberto Calasso travels through forms of communication between humans and the invisible, and traces a journey through the future of European culture. This is the novel…
Roberto Calasso explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people, who lived over three thousand years ago in northern India: They left behind…
A lucid and erudite reflection on the relationship we establish with books. What criterion presupposes the ordering and arrangement of books? Written with exquisite erudition and a fascinating tendency to…
With Baudelaire’s critical intelligence as his inspiration, the author ranges through his life and work, focusing on two painters - Ingres and Delacroix - about whom Baudelaire wrote acutely, and…
All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain. In this book, the author meditates on the art of book publishing. It…
In this novel, based on a Bedouin legend, the author questions the legitimacy of power, tyranny and sacrifice. The book combines both narrative and reflection, and reveals how ideas and…
A sprawling mediation on violence and revolution that incorporates mythology, literature, art and science –
The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Wurzburg Residenz in Germany and the…
Language plays a crucial role in the work of Polish artist Miroslaw Balka (born 1958), which, over the last 30 years, has addressed the traumas of European history. This book…
