The Tablet of Destinies

A universe of blood, violence, and magic … A vigorous rendering of the remote past * Kirkus *Stimulating … Calasso’s style calls to mind [Italo] Calvino’s dreamlike fabulism … and Parks’s translation is beautifully rendered and gripping, maintaining Calasso’s dreamlike tone … Calasso vividly creates a world of gods and humankind that is unfamiliar, poetic, and memorable. This slim volume packs a potent and thought-provoking punch * Publishers Weekly *The 11th volume of the late Italian writer and polymath’s investigation of ancient religion interprets Mesopotamian mythology to tell the story of Utnapishtim, an eternal figure who saved life on Earth from a catastrophic flood sent by vengeful and murderous gods * The New York Times *

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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