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Title: Literature and the Gods by ROBERTO CALASSO ISBN: 0-375-41138-0 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 13 March, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Absorbing Lectures for those interested.
Comment: Calasso is not an easy author to engage. Simply put, he makes little to no apologies from those that are not as well read he is, and does not waste time trying to have others catch up.
However, in this he is like the college professor who challenges his pupils, offering incredible insight to those who want to educate themselves. In this book, he attempts to connect the old gods, and the very idea of pagan divinity, to the literature of the modern age. His goal is to show us that these concrete expressions of divinity make their way into literature because they are what give literature a spark of the mysterious and divine.
In all honesty, it is hard to tell whether he accomplishes his goal, precisely because I am not up to par with his knowledge. At the same time, like a good professor he stuns me with his eloquence, so much so that I WANT to go and educate myself, to bone up on my literature and return to his lectures.
To any who love learning, I recommend this and Calasso's other books. He has a gift for recognizing and conveying the passion of writers and philosophers.
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Title: The Forty-nine Steps by Roberto Calasso, John Shepley, Alejo Carpentier, John Shepley ISBN: 0816630984 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso, William Weaver, Stephen Sartarelli ISBN: 0674780299 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso ISBN: 0679733485 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 08 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Ka : Stories of the Mind and Gods of India by Roberto Calasso, Roberto Calasso ISBN: 0679775471 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 26 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Economy of the Unlost : (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan) by Anne Carson ISBN: 0691091757 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 25 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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