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Drieduizend jaar geleden ontstond in India een manier van denken die veraf ligt van ons huidige rationalistische wereldbeeld: een weten dat alles omvatte, van het allerkleinste tot het allergrootste, van zandkorrel tot voorbij de grenzen van het heelal - de Veda. De afstand van deze denkwijze tot onze hedendaagse cultuur lijkt onoverbrugbaar, maar Roberto Calasso laat zien dat dit mythisch denken een noodzaak is - ook in de moderne tijd. Op...

Il volume raccoglie una serie di saggi, a partire da quello che dà il titolo al libro, dedicato alle ninfe, esseri delicatissimi e oscuri, fascinosi e terribili, provocatrici dell'ossessione primigenia, l'ossessione erotica. A questo si affiancano saggi che toccano temi disparati come la letteratura dei Brahmana, "Lolita" da Nabokov, "La finestra sul cortile" di Hitchcock, l'idea di bibliografia come forma, dell'editoria come genere letterario...

An interior look at Roberto Calasso's work as a publisher and his reflections on the art of book publishingIn this fascinating memoir, the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book publishing. Recalling the beginnings of Adelphi in the 1960s, he touches on the Italian house's defining qualities, including the considerations involved in designing the successful Biblioteca series and the strategy for publishing a wide ran...

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A look at Calasso's work as a publisher and his reflections on the art of book publishing. An essential book for writers, readers and editors.

La rovina di Kasch tratta di due argomenti: il primo è Talleyrand, il secondo è tutto il resto" (Italo Calvino). L'Età delle Rivoluzioni racconta il suo naufragio.

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 secrets and tragedy, virginity, and rape. "A perfect work like no other. (Calasso) has re-created . . . the morning of our world."--Gore Vidal. 15 engravings.

A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe 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 that persuade us to see our entire civilization in a new light, its guide is the French statesman Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, who knew the secr...

In a meditation on the wisdom of the Vedas, Roberto Calasso brings ritual and sacrifice to bear on the modern worldIn 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, or ruins. They created no empires...

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In a meditation on the wisdom of the Vedas, Roberto Calasso brings ritual and sacrifice to bear on the modern worldIn 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, or ruins. They created no empires...

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A Daniel Paul Schreber, presidente di Corte d'Appello a Dresda, discendente da una famiglia di illustri persecutori in nome della virtù, internato fra il 1893 e il 1902 in varie cliniche psichiatriche, non accaddero solo quelle molte cose che egli ci ha narrato nelle sue mirabili "Memorie di un malato di nervi". Era, quello, un testo destinato a tracciare sommariamente la mappa di una vasta evoluzione, avvenuta nel Presidente, e insieme a istr...

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 no objects, images, or ruins. They created no empires. Even the soma, their likely hallucinogenic ritualistic plant, is unknown.

An interior look at Roberto Calasso's work as a publisher and his reflections on the art of book publishingIn this illuminating volume, Roberto Calasso reflects on more than half a century of distinguished literary publishing at Adelphi Edizioni in Milan. "Part merchant, part circus impresario, the publisher has always been considered with a certain mistrust, like a clever huckster, " Calasso writes, and yet "publisher" may also be one of the ...

Calasso studies 18th-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo's 33 bizarre and haunting etchings, interpreting them as chapters in a dark narrative that contains the secret of Tiepolo's art.

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Ci fu un'epoca in cui, se si incontravano altri esseri, non si sapeva con certezza se erano animali o dèi o signori di una specie o demoni o antenati. O semplicemente uomini. Un giorno, che durò molte migliaia di anni, Homo fece qualcosa che nessun altro ancora aveva tentato. Cominciò a imitare quegli stessi animali che lo perseguitavano: i predatori. E diventò cacciatore. Fu un processo lungo, sconvolgente e rapinoso, che lasciò tracce e cica...

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