Roberto Calasso

Forty-Nine Steps, The (Book)

Roberto Calasso

ISBN:9780712697408

In this first translation of his most important essays, Calasso discusses the essential thinkers of our time, providing a sweeping analysis of the current state of Western culture. "The Forty-nine Steps" refers to the Talmudic doctrine that there are forty-nine steps to meaning in every passage of the Torah. Employing this interpretative approach...more details
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K (Book)

Roberto Calasso

ISBN:9780099464488

What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when? Countless answers have been offered...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:336

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K (Book)

Roberto Calasso

ISBN:9780224071925

From the internationally acclaimed author of Cadmus and Harmony and Ka: an utterly original, fascinating interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka that is simultaneously an unprecedented exploration into the mystery of Kafka himself...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:336

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Ka (Book)

Roberto Calasso

ISBN:9780224050524

The first impact of this text about the "Indianness" of India is one of strangeness, bewilderment and disorientation. However, slowly the strange becomes familiar...more details
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Ka (Book)

Roberto Calasso

ISBN:9780099750710

The first impact of this text about the "Indianness" of India is one of strangeness, bewilderment and disorientation. However, slowly the strange becomes familiar...more details
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Ka ()

Roberto Calasso

ISBN:9781446419946

What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when? This book attempts to enter the flow...more details
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Ka ()

Roberto Calasso

ISBN:9781446419977

Gives us the 'Indianness' of the mind of India, but in an Indian way. This title does not describe or explain this mental world: it regenerates it through its stories and customs....more details
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Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India (Book)

Roberto Calasso

ISBN:9780679775478

"A giddy invasion of stories--brilliant, enigmatic, troubling, outrageous, erotic, beautiful." --"The New York Times Book Review"
"So brilliant that you can't look at it anymore--and you can't look at anything else...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:464

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La Folie Baudelaire (Book)

Roberto Calasso

ISBN:9780374183349

Seen together, Roberto Calasso's books--beginning with "The Ruin of Kasch"--constitute an original and perceptive reconsideration of the great arc of literature...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:432

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Literature and the Gods (Book)

Roberto Calasso

ISBN:9780375725432

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 centuries...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:224

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Literature And The Gods (Book)

Roberto Calasso

ISBN:9780099287193

This title traces the return of pagan divinities to Western literature from their first reappearance at the beginning of the modern era to their place in the literature of our own time...more details
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Ruin Of Kasch,The (Book)

Roberto Calasso

ISBN:9780099576310

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The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Book)

Roberto Calasso

ISBN:9780679733485

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The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Book)

Roberto Calasso

ISBN:9780099308010

Forming a link in a chain that reaches back through Ovid's "Metamorphoses" directly to Homer, Roberto Calasso's award-winning re-examination of fantastic fables and mysteries...more details
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Tiepolo Pink. Roberto Calasso (Book)

Roberto Calasso

ISBN:9781845951320

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Tiepolo Pink (Book)

Roberto Calasso

ISBN:9780307267665

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 Wurzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:288

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Tiepolo Pink (Book)

Roberto Calasso

ISBN:9780375712081

The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, covering vast ceilings like those at the Wurzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:320

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Tiepolo Pink ()

Roberto Calasso

ISBN:9781409076520

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 Wurzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art...more details
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K (Book)

Roberto Calasso;Geoffrey Brock

ISBN:9781400076123

From the internationally acclaimed author of "The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony "comes one of the most significant books in recent years on a writer of perennial interest-a virtuoso interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka.
What are Kafka's fictions about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Countless answers have been offered...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:327

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The Forty-Nine Steps (Book)

Roberto Calasso;John Shepley

ISBN:9780816630981

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The Ruin of Kasch (Book)

Roberto Calasso;Stephen Weaver WilliamSartarelli

ISBN:9780674780293

In this brilliant work, Roberto Calasso cracks the code of what Baudelaire named the Modern--the increasingly murderous period from the French Revolution to the end of World War II. From Talleyrand's France and the legendary African city of Kasch...more details
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The Ruin of Kasch (Book)

Roberto Calasso;Stephen Weaver WilliamSartarelli

ISBN:9780674780262

In this brilliant work, Roberto Calasso cracks the code of what Baudelaire named the Modern--the increasingly murderous period from the French Revolution to the end of World War II. From Talleyrand's France and the legendary African city of Kasch...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:385

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Tiepolo Pink (Book)

Calasso Roberto

ISBN:9780224082075

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 W rzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art...more details
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