Literature and the Gods

Name: Literature and the Gods
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ISBN: 9780375725432

ISBN-10: 0375725431

ISBN-13: 9780375725432

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Authors: Roberto Calasso

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Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso’s lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us a renewed sense of the mystery and enchantment of great literature. From the banishment of the classical divinities during the Age of Reason to their emancipation by the Romantics and their place in the literature of our own time, the history of the gods can also be read as a ciphered and splendid history of literary inspiration. Rewriting that story, Calasso carves out a sacred space for literature where the…

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List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/4/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.15" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Roberto Calasso is the author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, as well as a novel and many literary and philosophical essays. He is Director of the publishing house Adelphi Edizioni in Milan.




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