Roberto Calasso, trans. from the Italian by Richard Dixon. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (464p) ISBN 978-0-374-90162-2
This thought-provoking eighth entry into an ongoing work on myth and history by publisher Calasso (The Marriage of Cadmon and Harmony) leisurely explores the idea of hunting as the key activity in the emergence of civilization. Moving from...
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Roberto Calasso, Author, John Shepley, Translator University of Minnesota Press $35 (290p) ISBN 978-0-8166-3098-1
In contrast to Hitchcock's 39, Roberto Calasso prefers The Forty-Nine Steps, the number indicated by the Talmud as the correct amount of exegetical phases in moving toward full Torah passage elucidation. Calasso, the Milanese publisher of Adelphi
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Roberto Calasso, Author, Geoffrey Brock, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Geoffrey Bock. Knopf $25 (327p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4189-3
Calasso's study is a milestone not just in the ever burgeoning literature about Kafka, but in literature itself. This remarkably elegant essay gains its intellectual authority from Calasso's tone: he's amazingly well read, without being...
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"One way or another, the world will go on being the place of epiphanies," says literary theorist Calasso (Ka; The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony) in this impressive, weighty and succinct work based on his Weidenfeld Lectures at Oxford last...
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Roberto Calasso, Author, Tim Parks, Translator Knopf Publishing Group $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-394-58154-5
That Greco-Roman mythology should shape a contemporary novel is hardly unusual, but the way this breath-takingly ambitious work shapes--and reshapes--classical mythology is remarkable indeed. Calasso, publisher of the intellectual Milanese house...
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Roberto Calasso, Author, Tim Parks, Translator Alfred A. Knopf $27.5 (464p) ISBN 978-0-679-45131-0
Author of the imaginative retelling of the Greek myths in The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Calasso takes on a more daunting task here: making the complex and less familiar myths of India tangible for a contemporary reader. Once again, narrative,...
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Roberto Calasso, trans. from the Italian by Richard Dixon. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-0-374-18231-1
Calasso follows 2012’s La folie Baudelaire with the seventh installment of an ongoing work, continuing in some measure the investigations of his marvelous Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India (1998). Calasso takes the reader on a tour through...
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Roberto Calasso, trans. from the Italian by Richard Dixon. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24 (160p) ISBN 978-0-374-18823-8
Calasso (Ardor), novelist and publisher of Adelphi Edizioni, the highly regarded Italian press, has meticulously crafted 11 brief, elegant essays on book publishing. Calasso inquires about future book use in a long reflection based on his Adelphi...
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Roberto Calasso, trans. from the Italian by Tim Parks. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (128p) ISBN 978-0-374-60501-8
Bagutta Prize winner Calasso (1941–2021) offers a stimulating if discombobulating entry in his series of retold myths with this account of Utnapishtim, an eternal figure from the earliest days of mankind. Calasso (The Book of All Books) drops the...
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Roberto Calasso, trans. from the Italian by Alastair McEven . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (432p) ISBN 978-0-374-18334-9
Calasso (The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony) takes seriously Charles Baudelaire's self-described desire "to glorify the cult of images." Accordingly, he uses the great poet and art critic's studies of painters as his point of departure for a ...
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Roberto Calasso, trans. from the Italian by Tim Parks. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (464p) ISBN 978-0-374-60189-8
Italian publisher and writer Calasso (The Celestial Hunter) once again muses eloquently on the Bible in this 10th entry in his series dedicated to exploring ancient myths and the human search for meaning. In Calasso’s signature style, he retells...
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