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K. by Roberto Calasso
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when? In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but to let it be illuminated by its own light. With his unique vision, imagination, and intellectual acumen ...Show more
Ka - 2019 Edition by Roberto Calasso
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Category: Spirituality | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In Ka, Roberto Calasso delves into the corpus of classical Sanskrit literature recreating and re-imagining the enchanting world of ancient India. Beginning with the Rig-Veda, Ka weaves together myths from the Upanishad, the Mahabharata and the stories of the Buddha, all of which pose questions that have ...Show more
The Celestial Hunter by Roberto Calasso
$22.99 AUD
Category: Myths & Legends
'A poetic, erudite exploration of history and myth' Financial TimesAn 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 Egyptia ...Show more
The Marriage Of Cadmus And Harmony by Roberto Calasso
$35.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction
HE MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY By Roberto Calasso. Translated by Tim Parks. Illustrated. 403 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. . 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, an ...Show more
The Tablet of Destinies by Roberto Calasso; Tim Parks (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Myths & Legends
An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great FloodA long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood to destroy them. But Ea, the god of fresh underground water, didn't agree. He advised one of his devotees, Utnapishtim, to build a qua ...Show more
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