Hakutulokset: Hakutulos

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 …

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 "the very best book about Hindu mythology that anyone has ever written" (The New Republic) Calasso plunges Western readers into the mind of ancient India. He begins with a …

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 …

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 …

The author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony presents an original interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka in a series of essays that looks at the meaning of Kafka's stories …

Roberto Calasso, "a literary institution of one" (The Paris Review), tells the story of the eternal life of Utnapishtim, the savior of man, in the eleventh part of his great …

Baudelaire s'est trouve vivre au carrefour de la Grande Ville, qui etait le carrefour de Paris, qui etait le carrefour de l'Europe, qui etait le carrefour du XIXe siecle, qui etait …

A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. The ninth part of Roberto Calasso's masterwork, The Unnamable Present, is closely …

The skies shook, then came rains of fire. Yet Garuda, the big, black eagle, pierced through the walls of heaven to snatch away the soma. He had to. That was the only way he could …