Roberto Calasso

'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

'Hier is een man aan het woord, die oude schatkamers opnieuw wil ontgrendelen om ze te voorzien van een eigentijdse urgentie.' **** Stephan Sanders in

An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great FloodA long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and deci

Focuses the ancient texts known as the Vedas. This volume explores the enigmatic web of ritual and myth that define the Vedas.

The skies shook, then came rains of fire. Yet Garuda, the big, black eagle, pierced through the walls of heaven to snatch away the soma. He had to. Th

Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians: in this book Roberto Calasso considers the tribes that i

Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso's lifelong study of the gods in the human i

All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain. In this book, the author meditates on the art of book publish

What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when?In this remarkable book, Robert

A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "

'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe'The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes that

<p><b>Een nieuw en verontrustend licht op de verhalen in de Bijbel door een van de grootste schrijvers van onze tijd. </b><br>

<p>Het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog luidde een periode in waarin bijna alle westerse landen langdurige vrede kenden en economische voorspoed

'To read Ka is to experience a giddy invasion of stories - brilliant, enigmatic, troubling, outrageous, erotic, beautiful' The New York Times'Who?' -

A beguiling new reimagining of one of the most ancient and mysterious origin myths of human civilization'The Flood didn't come suddenly as a big surpr