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K. by Roberto Calasso
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
22.99 AUD
Category: Mythology | 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
La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso
55.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Roberto Calasso is one of the most original and acclaimed of writers on literature, art, culture and mythology. In "Baudelaire's Folly", Calasso turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth century who created what was later called 'the Modern.' His protagonist is Charles Baud ...Show more
Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else," wrote Italo Calvino when the book first appeared in 1983. Hailed as one of those rare books ...Show more
The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso
12.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
'All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain'. In this fascinating memoir and manifesto the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book publishing. With his signature erudition and polemical flair, Calasso transcends Adelphi to look at th ...Show more
The Book of All Books by Roberto Calasso
55.00 AUD
Category: Popular History
A splendid reimagining of key stories from the Bible, from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisherA man named Saul is sent to search for some lost donkeys and on the way is named king of his people. The queen of a remote African realm travels for three years with her entourage to meet the kin ...Show more
The Book of All Books by Roberto Calasso
26.99 AUD
Category: History
A captivating and highly original retelling of key stories from the Bible - the culmination of a lifetime's literary work. A man named Saul is sent to search for some lost donkeys and on the way is named king of his people. The queen of a remote African realm travels for three years with her entourage ...Show more
The Celestial Hunter by Roberto Calasso
22.99 AUD
Category: Mythology
'A poetic, erudite exploration of history and myth' Financial TimesAn unforgettable journey through centuries and across cultures to the pivotal moment in evolution - when humans did something that no species had yet tried - when we became the hunter and no longer the prey. Informed by Greek and Egyptia ...Show more
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso
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Category: Mythology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony is a masterful retelling of the ancient myths and fables we may only think we know. From the tale of Europa and the bull to the fall of Troy, Roberto Calasso weaves his way through the entire world of Greek mythology with a captivating sense of curiosity and intrigue t ...Show more
The Tablet of Destinies by Roberto Calasso
35.00 AUD
Category: Mythology
An immersive and entertaining tale based on the Mesopotamian myth of the Great Flood, from the renowned publisher and writer Roberto Calasso'The Flood didn't come suddenly as a big surprise. It came at the end of a long, tormented story. Men just went on multiplying and the noise they made was ever more ...Show more
The Unnamable Present by Roberto Calasso
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians: in this book Roberto Calasso considers the tribes that inhabit and inform the world today. A world that feels more elusive than ever before. This book, the ninth part of a work in progress, is a meditation on t ...Show more