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Biographie et livres de Roberto Calasso
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Editions Gallimard
2023-11-23
« Baudelaire s’est trouvé vivre au carrefour de la Grande Ville, qui était le carrefour de Paris, qui était le carrefour de l’Europe, qui était le carrefour du XIXe siècle, qui était le carrefour d’aujourd’hui. Ce n’est qu’à travers lui que nous en prenons conscience....
Il fut une époque où, si l'on rencontrait d'autres êtres, on ne savait pas avec certitude s'il s'agissait d'animaux ou de dieux ou de seigneurs d'une certaine espèce ou de démons ou d'aïeux. Ou simplement d'hommes. Un jour, qui dura plusieurs milliers d'années, Homo fit...
Touristes, terroristes, sécularistes, hackers, fondamentalistes, transhumanistes, algorithmiciens : ce sont toutes les tribus qui habitent et agitent l’innommable actuel. Un monde fuyant comme il n’était jamais arrivé auparavant, qui semble ignorer son passé, mais qui...
Quelque chose d'immensément loin de notre présent est apparu il y a plus de trois mille ans dans l'Inde du Nord : le Veda, un "savoir" qui englobait tout en lui, depuis les grains de sable jusqu'aux confins de l'univers. Cette distance transparaît dans la manière de...
De quoi parlent les histoires de Kafka? Après avoir reçu d'innombrables réponses, la question continue de susciter une sentiment de vive incertitude. S'agit-il de rêves? D'allégories?De symboles? S'agit-il d'événements qui arrivent tous les jours? Les nombreuses...
Avant de vouer un culte à la raison, les Grecs se sont enthousiasmés pour la notion de possession. Lié aux affres de la passion, ce phénomène de « folie divine » revêt diverses formes et génère la pensée même, la poésie, la divination. Roberto Calasso se penche sur...
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...
'Beautiful, intellectually thrilling . . . unlike anything else' TelegraphPromise and separation. Grace and guilt. The chosen and the damned. Roberto Calasso's captivating retelling of key stories from the bible evokes the dramatic world of the Old Testament and casts...
'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe'The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes that are among the glories of Western art, yet he remains shrouded in mystery. Who was he? And what was the significance of...
'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...
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,...
'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 ...
'To read Ka is to experience a giddy invasion of stories - brilliant, enigmatic, troubling, outrageous, erotic, beautiful' The New York Times'Who?' - or 'ka' - is the question that runs through Roberto Calasso's retelling of the stories of the minds and gods of...
Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians: in this book Roberto Calasso considers the tribes that inhabit and inform the world today. A world that feels more elusive than ever before.This book, the ninth part of a...
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: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else," wrote Italo Calvino when the book first appeared in 1983....
Roberto Calasso is one of the most original and acclaimed of writers on literature, art, culture and mythology. In Baudelaire's Folly, Calasso turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth century who created what was later called 'the Modern.'...
'All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain'In this fascinating memoir and manifesto the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book publishing. With his signature erudition and polemical flair, Calasso...
In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people who lived more than three thousand years ago in northern India: they left behind...
In books lauded as brilliant, exhilarating and profound, Roberto Calasso has revealed the unexpected intersections of ancient and modern through topics ranging from Greek and Indian mythology to what a legendary African kingdom can tell us about the French Revolution. ...
The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among...
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