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A book that begins before Adam and ends after us. In this magisterial work by the Italian intellectual superstar Roberto Calasso, figures of the Bible and its whole outline emerge in a new light: one that is often astonishing and disquieting, as indeed-more than any other-is the book from which they originateRoberto Calasso's The Book of All Books is a narration that moves through the Bible as if through a forest, where every branch-every vers...

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 Egyptian myth, the stories of poets, shamans and gods, Roberto Calasso's expansive exploration of our relationship to animals and sacrifice, encourages...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"[Calasso's] flow of associations leaves you feeling not out of your depth, but smarter and better read." --The New York Times Book ReviewThe 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 with The Ruin of Kasch, The Celestial Hunter is an inspired and provocative exploration of m...

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Es gab eine Epoche, in der man, wenn verschiedene Lebewesen aufeinander trafen, nicht genau wusste, ob es sich um Tiere oder Götter, Dämonen oder Ahnen handelte. Oder einfach um Menschen. Eines Tages, der viele tausend Jahre dauerte, machte Homo etwas, das noch keiner versucht hatte: Er begann die Tiere nachzuahmen, die ihn jagten, die Raubtiere. Er wurde zum Jäger. Es war ein langer und schwieriger Prozess, der Spuren und Narben in Riten und ...

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 the obscure and ubiquitous process of transformation happening in societies today, where distant echoes of Auden's The Age of Anxiety give way to...

Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe'The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes that are among the glories of Western art, yet he remains shrouded in mystery. Who was he? And what was the significance of the dark, bizarre etchings depicting sacrifice and magic, which he created alongside his heavenly works? Roberto Calasso explores Tiepolo as the last artist of the ancien régime and...

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, Calasso attempts to enter the flow, the tortuous movement, the physiology of the stories to discover what they are meant to signify and to delv...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"[Calasso's] flow of associations leaves you feeling not out of your depth, but smarter and better read." --The New York Times Book ReviewThe 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 with The Ruin of Kasch, The Celestial Hunter is an inspired and provocative exploration of m...

A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. The ninth part of Roberto Calasso's work in progress, The Unnamable Present, is closely connected with themes of the first book, The Ruin of Kasch (originally published in 1983, and recently reissued by FSG in a new translation). But while Kasch is an enlightened exploration of modernity, The Unnamable Present propels us into the twenty-first century.Tour...

Auf den Spuren Baudelaires, dessen Traum von einer Mischung zwischen Museum und Bordell im Zentrum des Buchs steht, hat Calasso einen Ort geschaffen, wo der Leser dem Dichter selbst begegnet, seinen Zeitgenossen, seiner Stadt und seinen außergewöhnlichen Vorlieben und Abneigungen. Am Ende lässt sich feststellen, dass dieser Ort nichts weniger als das Land der »absoluten Literatur« ist.In einem überraschenden Mosaik aus Geschichten, Interpretat...

Das Werk Giambattista Tiepolos, des großen Malers des venezianischen 18. Jahrhunderts, ist - wie die Farbe Rosa selbst - zur Signatur einer ganzen Epoche geworden. Calassos faszinierende Studie macht deutlich, dass Tiepolo mit seinem fließenden, scheinbar ganz und gar mühelosen Stil die letzte Verkörperung der Tugend der sprezzatura war: der hohen Kunst, nicht kunstvoll zu erscheinen.

Roberto Calasso is the author of many books including the international bestseller The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony and The Ruin of Kasch, both parts of a work in progress of which The Unnamable Present is part nine.

Roberto Calasso is the author of many books including the international bestseller The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony and The Ruin of Kasch, both parts of a work in progress of which The Unnamable Present is part nine.

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Prima di essere decifrati da Champollion, i geroglifici egiziani vennero interpretati - in una lunga e grandiosa linea di pensiero che va dalla tarda antichità al diciassettesimo secolo, da Plotino ad Athanasius Kircher - come una lingua non discorsiva, segreta e rivelatrice, fatta solo di immagini. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) pose in atto questa concezione in tutta la sua opera di erudito e sommo prosatore - opera discreta, elusiva, diffici...

Roberto Calassos Essay ist in drei Kapitel gegliedert. Das dritte, zwei Seiten lang, beschreibt einen Traum Baudelaires als Präfiguration der zusammenstürzenden Zwillingstürme (9/11). Das zweite, »Die Wiener Gasgesellschaft«, durchläuft die Jahre 1933 bis 1945. Es präsentiert Zitate deutscher und ausländischer Autoren, die damals ihre Eindrücke von Nazi-Deutschland festgehalten haben (Louis-Ferdinand Céline, André Gide, Simone Weil, Klaus Mann...

«Tiepolo: l'ultimo soffio di felicità in Europa. E, come ogni vera felicità, piena di lati oscuri, non destinati a scomparire, anzi a prendere il sopravvento. Riconoscibile dall'aria che spira senza ostacoli e senza sforzi, come non sarebbe più avvenuto dopo quella volta. In paragone con Tiepolo, la felicità di Fragonard è costruita operando tacite esclusioni. Mentre Tiepolo non esclude nulla. Neppure Morte, che viene accolta fra i suoi person...

A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. The ninth part of Roberto Calasso's work in progress, The Unnamable Present, is closely connected with themes of the first book, The Ruin of Kasch (originally published in 1983, and recently reissued by FSG in a new translation). But while Kasch is an enlightened exploration of modernity, The Unnamable Present propels us into the twenty first century.Tour...

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