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Ardor by Roberto Calasso
Category: Culture
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 Vedic people who lived more than three thousand years ago in northern India: they left behind almost no objects, images, ruins. ...Show more
Ardor by Roberto Calasso
Category: History
In 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 Vedic peop ...Show more
Ardor by Roberto Calasso
Category: History
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 Vedic people who lived more than three thousand years ago in northern India: they left behind almost no objects, images, ruins. ...Show more
Celestial Hunter by Roberto Calasso
Category: Languages and Reference
The eighth part of Roberto Calasso's monumental series on the primal forces of civilizationThe eighth part of Roberto Calasso's singular work in progress that began in 1983 withThe Ruin of Kasch,The Celestial Hunteris an inspired and provocative exploration of mankind's relationship with myth, the divin ...Show more
FORTY-NINE STEPS by CALASSO ROBERTO SHEPLEY JOHN
Category: Culture
In books lauded as brilliant, exhilarating and profound, Roberto Calasso has revealed the unexpected intersections of ancient and modern through topics ranging from Greek and Indian mythology to what a legendary African kingdom can tell us about the French Revolution. In this first translation of his mo ...Show more
K by Roberto Calasso (tr from Italian Geoffrey Brock)
Category: Biography Memoir
What 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 acumen, ...Show more
K. by Roberto Calasso
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
What 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 acumen ...Show more
Ka - 2019 Edition by Roberto Calasso
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In Ka, Roberto Calasso delves into the corpus of classical Sanskrit literature recreating and re-imagining the enchanting world of ancient India. Beginning with the Rig-Veda, Ka weaves together myths from the Upanishad, the Mahabharata and the stories of the Buddha, all of which pose questions that have ...Show more
Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India by Roberto Calasso
Category: Fiction
With the same narrative fecundity he brought to The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Calasso plunges Western readers into the consciousness of ancient India.