Ka (Storpocket)
avRoberto Calasso, Roberto Calasso
ISBN: 9780099750710 - UTGIVEN: 199911It is the essence of Roberto Calasso's particular genius to have evolved a unique way of reconstructing the imaginative heart of some of the world's greatest cultures. In The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony it was the 'Greekness' of classical culture; in Ka he gives us the 'Indianness' of the mind of[...]
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Pocket)
avRoberto Calasso, Tim Parks, Roberto Calasso
ISBN: 9780679733485 - UTGIVEN: 199402Presenting 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 secrets and tragedy, virginity, and rape. "A perfect work like no other. (Calasso) has re-created . . . the morning of our wor[...]
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Storpocket)
avRoberto Calasso
ISBN: 9780099308010 - UTGIVEN: 1994-06THE MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY is a book without any modern parallel. Forming an active link in a chain that reaches back through Ovid's METAMORPHOSES directly to Homer, Roberto Calasso's re-exploration of the fantastic fables and mysteries we may only think we know explodes the entire world of [...]
K (Storpocket)
avRoberto Calasso
ISBN: 9780099464488 - UTGIVEN: 2006-09What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when? In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but to let it be illuminated by its own light. With his unique vision, imagination, and intellectual acu[...]
The Ruin of Kasch (Storpocket)
avRoberto Calasso
ISBN: 9780099576310 - UTGIVEN: 1995-06Taking as its focus the periods immediately before and after the French Revolution but making occasional sallies backward and forward in time, Roberto Calasso recounts, elucidates, and interprets the downfall of what Baudelaire was already calling 'the Modern'. The downfall came as a sequel to an ea[...]
Tiepolo Pink (Inbunden)
avRoberto Calasso
ISBN: 9780224082075 - UTGIVEN: 2010-02The 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 Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The [...]
Ardor (Inbunden)
avRoberto Calasso
ISBN: 9780374182311 - UTGIVEN: 2014-11In a meditation on the wisdom of the Vedas, Roberto Calasso brings ritual and sacrifice to bear on the modern world
In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom "The Paris Review "has called "a literary institution," explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Ve[...]
La Folie Baudelaire (Inbunden)
avRoberto Calasso
ISBN: 9780374183349 - UTGIVEN: 201210Seen together, Roberto Calasso's books--beginning with "The Ruin of Kasch"--constitute an original and perceptive reconsideration of the great arc of literature, art, and mythology. In this lavishly illustrated book, Calasso turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth cen[...]
La Folie Baudelaire (Häftad)
avRoberto Calasso
ISBN: 9780374534073 - UTGIVEN: 2014-05A spectacular act of close reading and looking by a great writer
In "La Folie Baudelaire," Roberto Calasso--one of the most original and acclaimed writers on literature, art, culture, and mythology--turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth century who created what [...]
Tiepolo Pink (Häftad)
avRoberto Calasso
ISBN: 9780375712081 - UTGIVEN: 201109The 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 Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The [...]
Literature and the Gods (Häftad)
avRoberto Calasso
ISBN: 9780375725432 - UTGIVEN: 2002-06Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso's lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us a renewed sense of[...]
Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India (Häftad)
avRoberto Calasso
ISBN: 9780679775478 - UTGIVEN: 199911"A giddy invasion of stories--brilliant, enigmatic, troubling, outrageous, erotic, beautiful." --The New York Times Book Review
"So brilliant that you can't look at it anymore--and you can't look at anything else. . . . No one will read it without reward."
--The Boston Globe
Roberto Calasso (Pocket)
ISBN: 9786135285673Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Roberto Calasso (born 30 May 1941 in Florence) is an Italian writer and publisher. Calasso was born into a family of the local upper class, well connected with some of the [...]
