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Ardor by Roberto Calasso
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
In a meditation on the wisdom of the Vedas, Roberto Calasso brings ritual and sacrifice to bear on the modern world In 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 peop ...Show more
Ardor by Roberto Calasso
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
In 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, ruins. ...Show more
Ardor by Roberto Calasso
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
In 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, ruins. ...Show more
K. by Roberto Calasso
$22.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when? In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but to let it be illuminated by its own light. With his unique vision, imagination, and intellectual acumen ...Show more
Ka - 2019 Edition by Roberto Calasso
$22.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In Ka, Roberto Calasso delves into the corpus of classical Sanskrit literature recreating and re-imagining the enchanting world of ancient India. Beginning with the Rig-Veda, Ka weaves together myths from the Upanishad, the Mahabharata and the stories of the Buddha, all of which pose questions that have ...Show more
Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India by Roberto Calasso
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
With the same narrative fecundity he brought to The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Calasso plunges Western readers into the consciousness of ancient India.
La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso
$6.00 AUD
$22.99 (73% off)
Category: Biography
A spectacular act of close reading and looking by a great writer In 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 the nineteenth century who created what was later ...Show more
Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso
$22.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The 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 ...Show more
The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso
$14.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
'All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain'. In this fascinating memoir and manifesto the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book publishing. With his signature erudition and polemical flair, Calasso transcends Adelphi to look at th ...Show more
The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso
$34.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
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 def ...Show more
The Book of All Books by Roberto Calasso
$55.00 AUD
Category: Religion
A splendid reimagining of key stories from the Bible, from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisherA man named Saul is sent to search for some lost donkeys and on the way is named king of his people. The queen of a remote African realm travels for three years with her entourage to meet the kin ...Show more
The Book of All Books by Roberto Calasso
$26.99 AUD
Category: Religion
A captivating and highly original retelling of key stories from the Bible - the culmination of a lifetime's literary work. A man named Saul is sent to search for some lost donkeys and on the way is named king of his people. The queen of a remote African realm travels for three years with her entourage ...Show more