Turisti, terroristi, secolaristi, hacker, fondamentalisti, transumanisti, algoritmici: sono tutte tribù che abitano e agitano l'innominabile attuale. Mondo sfuggente come mai prima, che sembra ignorare il suo passato, ma subito si illumina appena si profilano altri anni, quel periodo fra il 1933 e il 1945 in cui il mondo stesso aveva compiuto un tentativo, parzialmente riuscito, di autoannientamento. Quel che venne dopo era informe, grezzo e strapotente. Nel nuovo millennio, è informe, grezzo e sempre più potente. Auden intitolò L'età dell'ansia un poemetto a più voci ambientato in un bar a New York verso la fine della guerra. Oggi quelle voci suonano remote, come se venissero da un’altra valle. L’ansia non manca, ma non prevale. Ciò che prevale è l’inconsistenza, una inconsistenza assassina. È l’età dell’inconsistenza.

Unnamable Present

Literature & Fiction

Calasso, Roberto

Essays & Correspondence

Penguin

THE MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY By Roberto Calasso. Translated by Tim Parks. Illustrated. 403 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $25. THERE were no mythology books in fifth-century Athens. Everyone knew the stories. Boys were taught to recite Homer's accounts of Achilles' anger and the return of Odysseus, and other epic poems recounted the myths of the love affairs of the gods and the adventures of the famous heroes. Myths were related to women working at their looms, and male citizens could watch how the dramatists would tell the same stories in new and exciting ways. But after the mid-fourth century, when King Philip of Macedon defeated Athens, and his son Alexander, through his conquests, spread Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean area, the first Greek mythology books were written for the many people who did not know the stories. Perhaps the most influential surviving example of this genre is the epic "Metamorphoses" or "Transformations," by the Roman poet Ovid, which recounts in Latin verse how certain mortals were turned into animals or plants as a result of their encounters with the gods.

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

Literary

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Religion & Spirituality

JONATHAN CAPE.

ASIN: 0224050524 Product Name: Ka : Stories of the minds and gods of India Category (item-type): book 1998 hc Marketplace: US

Ka : Stories of the minds and gods of India

Celestial Hunter

'A poetic, erudite exploration of history and myth' Financial Times\nAn unforgettable journey through centuries and across cultures to the pivotal moment in evolution - when humans did something that no species had yet tried - when we became the hunter and no longer the prey. Informed by Greek and Egyptian myth, the stories of poets, shamans and gods, Roberto Calasso's expansive exploration of our relationship to animals and sacrifice, encourages us to reframe our understanding of our place in history, and in the world.\n'Calasso has created a much discussed original genre for these books ... a dense pastiche of myth, biography, criticism, philosophy, history and minutiae ... woven together by Calasso's unflagging vision' The New Yorker

The Celestial Hunter

Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians: in this book Roberto Calasso considers the tribes that inhabit and inform the world today. A world that feels more elusive than ever before.Yet once contrasted with the period between 1933 and 1945, when the world made a partially successful attempt at self-annihilation, the new millennium begins to take on an unprecedented form. What emerges is something illusory, ever-shifting and occasionally murderous: the unnamable present. This book, the ninth part of a work in progress, is a meditation on the obscure and ubiquitous process of transformation happening in societies today, where distant echoes of Auden's The Age of Anxiety give way to something altogether more unsettling.

The Unnamable Present

Allen Lane.

'It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the origins of Western self-consciousness' Simon Schama 
The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony was the last time the gods of Olympus feasted alongside mortals. What happened in the distant ages preceding it, and in the generations that followed, form the timeless tales of ancient Greek mythology. In this masterful retelling of the myths we think we know, Roberto Calasso illuminates the deepest questions of our existence. 
'The kind of book one comes across only once or twice in one's lifetime' Joseph Brodsky 
'A perfect work like no other' Gore Vidal

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Penguin Modern Classics)

Penguin Classics

'To read Ka is to experience a giddy invasion of stories - brilliant, enigmatic, troubling, outrageous, erotic, beautiful' The New York Times 
'Who?' - or 'ka' - is the question that runs through Roberto Calasso's retelling of the stories of the minds and gods of India; the primordial question that continues to haunt human existence. From the Rigveda to the Upanishads, the Mahabharata to the life of Buddha, this book delves into the corpus of classical Sanskrit literature to re-imagine the ancient Indian myths and how they resonate through space and time. 
'The very best book about Hindu mythology that anyone has ever written' Wendy Doniger 
'Dazzling, complex, utterly original ... Ka is his masterpiece' Sunday Times

Ka (Penguin Modern Classics)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Tiepolo Pink

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Unnamable Present

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

Ka : Stories of the minds and gods of India

Celestial Hunter

The Celestial Hunter

The Unnamable Present

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Penguin Modern Classics)

Ka (Penguin Modern Classics)

Tiepolo Pink