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The Ruin of Kasch

The Ruin of Kasch

1996 ·
·3.99·113 Ratings ·400 Pages
“ Pretending to not be afraid is as good as actually not being afraid. ” ― David Letterman
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  • Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India

    1999·
    ·4.13·537 Ratings
    With 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 ancient India. He begins with a mystery: Why is the most important god in the Rg
  • The Zürau Aphorisms

    2006·
    ·3.78·599 Ratings
    The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers are now gathered into a single volume with an introduction and afterword by the celebrated writer and publisher Roberto Calasso. Illness set him free to writ
  • Οι γάμοι του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας

    2005··Greek
    ·4.26·758 Ratings
    Στους γάμους του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας ήταν η τελευταία φορά όπου, με την ευκαιρία εκείνης της γιορτής, οι θεοί του Ολύμπου κάθισαν στο ίδ�
  • Literature and the Gods

    2002·
    ·3.89·171 Ratings
    Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso’s lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the
  • La Folie Baudelaire

    2014·
    ·4.07·54 Ratings
    A spectacular act of close reading and looking by a great writerIn La Folie Baudelaire, Roberto Calasso—one of the most original and acclaimed writers on literature, art, culture, and mythology—turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in
  • L'impronta dell'editore

    2013·
    ·3.68·85 Ratings
    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
  • L'ardore

    2010··Italian
    ·4.38·55 Ratings
    Qualcosa di immensamente remoto dall’oggi apparve più di tremila anni fa nell’India del Nord: il Veda, un «sapere» che comprendeva in sé tutto, dai granelli di sabbia sino ai confini dell’universo. Distanza che si avverte nel modo di vivere ogn
  • Tiepolo Pink

    2010·
    ·4.02·55 Ratings
    The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes t
  • The Monkey's Wrench

    1995·
    ·3.92·546 Ratings
    In this exuberant novel, one of Italy's greatest living writers celebrates the art of storytelling and the spirit of work through weaving the mesmerizing tales of an itinerant construction worker, Libertino Faussone, and a writer-chemist, the true and fic
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