Summary
A meditation on the ancient wisdom of the Vedas. Calasso brings ritual, sacrifice and myth 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 people who lived more than three thousand years ago in northern India. They left behind almost no objects, images, ruins. Only a ‘Parthenon of words’ remains—verses and formulations sugge…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846145070 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846145074 |
| Author: | Roberto Calasso |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2016 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Roberto Calasso
Roberto Calasso was born in Florence in 1941. An author and publisher, he began working at Adelphi Edizioni from its founding in 1962 and continued as director for fifty years. The Book of All Books is the tenth part of a series that began with The Ruin of Kasch and includes the international bestseller The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony as well as Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink, La Folie Baudelaire, Ardor, The Celestial Hunter and The Unnamable Present. He died in Milan in 2021.
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