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Encuadernación: Rústica Colección: Colección NoesisLos griegos no consideraban la locura como patología, sino como posesión divina, una forma de conocimiento y una posibilidad de felicidad. El ensayo que da título a este libro desvela el origen de la posesión primigenia ¿la erótica, provocada por las ninfas, de cuyo súbito y delirante rapto son presa los hombres¿.Pero para Calasso la posesión no es exclusiva del mundo antiguo y, más allá de lo...

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony and Ka: a brilliant study of the gods in literature that restores reading to an exalted position.In charting the history of classical divinities in literature -- from their banishment during the Age of Reason to their place in the literature of our own time -- Roberto Calasso maps a history of literary inspiration and carves out a sacred space for literature as the...

A delightful account of the life and work of Giambattista Tiepolo, regarded as the last 'Olympian' painter of the Venetian Republic, with approximately eighty illustrations that serve as a counterpoint to the text.

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 GlobeWith the same narrative fecundity and imaginative sympathy he brought to his acclaimed retelling of the Greek myths, Roberto Calasso plunges Western readers into the mind of ...

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