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'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
'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 SchamaThe marriage of Cadmus and Harmony was the last time the gods of Olympus feasted alongside mortals. What happened in the d
With the same narrative fecundity he brought to The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Calasso plunges Western readers into the consciousness of ancient India.
Calasso, Roberto: - Roberto Calasso (1941-2021) was born in Florence and lived in Milan. Begun in 1983 with The Ruin of Kasch , his landmark series now comprises The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony , Ka , K. , Tiepolo Pink , La Folie Baudelaire , Ardor , The Celestial Hunter , The Unnamable Present ,
