Roberto Calasso, "a literary institution of one" (The Paris Review), tells the story of the eternal life of Utnapishtim...... more

Roberto Calasso, figures of the Bible and its whole outline emerge in a new light: one that is often astonishing and...... more

An advisor to Italian publishing houses, a translator of Freud and Jung, a friend of Montale and Cal... more

came after, and was able to adapt the notion of legitimacy to the modern age. Roberto Calasso follows him through a vast...... more

intact. Setting out on his own exploration, Roberto Calasso enters the flow, the tortuous movement, the physiology of Kafka s...... more

Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso s lifelong...... more

Roberto Calasso, "a literary institution of one" (The Paris Review), tells the story of the eternal life of Utnapishtim...... more

In "the very best book about Hindu mythology that anyone has ever written" (The New Republic) Calasso plunges Western...... more

Calasso s work in progress, The Unnamable Present, is closely connected with themes of the first book, The Ruin of Kasch...... more

ages up to modern times. Contributors are Francisco Apellániz, Michel Balivet, Giovanna Calasso, Alessandro Cancian, Éric...... more

In a meditation on the wisdom of the Vedas, Roberto Calasso brings ritual and sacrifice to bear on the modern world In...... more

An interior look at Roberto Calasso s work as a publisher and his reflections on the art of book publishing In this...... more

An interior look at Roberto Calasso s work as a publisher and his reflections on the art of book publishing In this...... more

In a meditation on the wisdom of the Vedas, Roberto Calasso brings ritual and sacrifice to bear on the modern world In...... more

thirty-three bizarre and haunting etchings, the Capricci and the Scherzi, but Roberto Calasso rises to the challenge, interpreting...... more