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.The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

by: Roberto Calasso

June 30, 1994
Roberto Calasso is probably unreadable and at a certain attempt even this book (his most popular both in the sense of notoriety and accessibility) is. But Roberto Calasso is not a writer a novelist or a poet, he is mainly a publisher, Adelphi, his publishing house, is one of the best in Italy since Aldo Manuzio (!!!). This book is just the second chapter of a long work in progress comprehending The ruins of Kasch, Ka, K and Il Rosa Tiepolo (just published in italian) and supposed to be a giant trait-d'union between all the titles published by Adelphi. It is meant to sollicit a curious mind, to create new links between different approaches to Literatures, to be the starting point of a wider search for an esotheric reader (in the sense of someone ... Read More:
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.Ka

by: Roberto Calasso

November 04, 1999
the book drew me in and kept me there right to its ultimate enument....startling insights into the hindu myths combine with wondrous story telling to make this one of my favourite reads last year...the unpatronizing outsiders tone adds to its character
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.Zurau Aphorisms

by: Franz Kafka, Michael Hofmann, Roberto Calasso, Geoffrey Brock

December 14, 2006
the book drew me in and kept me there right to its ultimate enument....startling insights into the hindu myths combine with wondrous story telling to make this one of my favourite reads last year...the unpatronizing outsiders tone adds to its character
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.K.

by: Roberto Calasso

January 18, 2005
I am not a fan of Kafka, but the perspective Calasso offers has made me see what i could not see in Kafka's own texts. Utterly thrilling to be led to see treasures in something one has already (figuratively) thrown on the garbage heap. Kafka's sickly/neurotic aura has been an obstacle to me: i have only seen the symptoms. Calasso makes visible the wholeness in which the dis-ease/text/art is an expression of the rift in the center of human life. A rift that only the sensitive used to feel - now this dis-ease is affecting almost everyone. The invisible world haunts us, in spite of all the matter we fling at that black hole. Calasso shows Kafka as a mapmaker of the border to... what? Gods, the unknown, the unapproachable, the mystery. A thoroughly juicy ... Read More:
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.The Ruin of Kasch

by: Roberto Calasso

June 01, 1995
I am not a fan of Kafka, but the perspective Calasso offers has made me see what i could not see in Kafka's own texts. Utterly thrilling to be led to see treasures in something one has already (figuratively) thrown on the garbage heap. Kafka's sickly/neurotic aura has been an obstacle to me: i have only seen the symptoms. Calasso makes visible the wholeness in which the dis-ease/text/art is an expression of the rift in the center of human life. A rift that only the sensitive used to feel - now this dis-ease is affecting almost everyone. The invisible world haunts us, in spite of all the matter we fling at that black hole. Calasso shows Kafka as a mapmaker of the border to... what? Gods, the unknown, the unapproachable, the mystery. A thoroughly juicy ... Read More:
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.K

by: Roberto Calasso

September 07, 2006
I am not a fan of Kafka, but the perspective Calasso offers has made me see what i could not see in Kafka's own texts. Utterly thrilling to be led to see treasures in something one has already (figuratively) thrown on the garbage heap. Kafka's sickly/neurotic aura has been an obstacle to me: i have only seen the symptoms. Calasso makes visible the wholeness in which the dis-ease/text/art is an expression of the rift in the center of human life. A rift that only the sensitive used to feel - now this dis-ease is affecting almost everyone. The invisible world haunts us, in spite of all the matter we fling at that black hole. Calasso shows Kafka as a mapmaker of the border to... what? Gods, the unknown, the unapproachable, the mystery. A thoroughly juicy ... Read More:
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.Winding Paths: Photographs by Bruce Chatwin

by: Bruce Chatwin

October 14, 1999
I am not a fan of Kafka, but the perspective Calasso offers has made me see what i could not see in Kafka's own texts. Utterly thrilling to be led to see treasures in something one has already (figuratively) thrown on the garbage heap. Kafka's sickly/neurotic aura has been an obstacle to me: i have only seen the symptoms. Calasso makes visible the wholeness in which the dis-ease/text/art is an expression of the rift in the center of human life. A rift that only the sensitive used to feel - now this dis-ease is affecting almost everyone. The invisible world haunts us, in spite of all the matter we fling at that black hole. Calasso shows Kafka as a mapmaker of the border to... what? Gods, the unknown, the unapproachable, the mystery. A thoroughly juicy ... Read More:
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.Literature and the Gods

by: Roberto Calasso

June 07, 2001
I am not a fan of Kafka, but the perspective Calasso offers has made me see what i could not see in Kafka's own texts. Utterly thrilling to be led to see treasures in something one has already (figuratively) thrown on the garbage heap. Kafka's sickly/neurotic aura has been an obstacle to me: i have only seen the symptoms. Calasso makes visible the wholeness in which the dis-ease/text/art is an expression of the rift in the center of human life. A rift that only the sensitive used to feel - now this dis-ease is affecting almost everyone. The invisible world haunts us, in spite of all the matter we fling at that black hole. Calasso shows Kafka as a mapmaker of the border to... what? Gods, the unknown, the unapproachable, the mystery. A thoroughly juicy ... Read More:
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.Ka

by: Roberto Calasso

November 26, 1998
I am not a fan of Kafka, but the perspective Calasso offers has made me see what i could not see in Kafka's own texts. Utterly thrilling to be led to see treasures in something one has already (figuratively) thrown on the garbage heap. Kafka's sickly/neurotic aura has been an obstacle to me: i have only seen the symptoms. Calasso makes visible the wholeness in which the dis-ease/text/art is an expression of the rift in the center of human life. A rift that only the sensitive used to feel - now this dis-ease is affecting almost everyone. The invisible world haunts us, in spite of all the matter we fling at that black hole. Calasso shows Kafka as a mapmaker of the border to... what? Gods, the unknown, the unapproachable, the mystery. A thoroughly juicy ... Read More:
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.KA - Stories of the Mind and Gods of India

by: Roberto Calasso

1998
I am not a fan of Kafka, but the perspective Calasso offers has made me see what i could not see in Kafka's own texts. Utterly thrilling to be led to see treasures in something one has already (figuratively) thrown on the garbage heap. Kafka's sickly/neurotic aura has been an obstacle to me: i have only seen the symptoms. Calasso makes visible the wholeness in which the dis-ease/text/art is an expression of the rift in the center of human life. A rift that only the sensitive used to feel - now this dis-ease is affecting almost everyone. The invisible world haunts us, in spite of all the matter we fling at that black hole. Calasso shows Kafka as a mapmaker of the border to... what? Gods, the unknown, the unapproachable, the mystery. A thoroughly juicy ... Read More:
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