Ka Stories of the Mind and Gods of India

Name: Ka Stories of the Mind and Gods of India
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ISBN: 9780679775478

ISBN-10: 0679775471

ISBN-13: 9780679775478

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Authors: Roberto Calasso

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"A giddy invasion of stories--brilliant, enigmatic, troubling, outrageous, erotic, beautiful." --The New York Times Book Review "So brilliant that you can't look at it anymore--and you can't look at anything else. . . . No one will read it without reward." --The Boston Globe With the same narrative fecundity and imaginative sympathy he brought to his acclaimed retelling of the Greek myths, Roberto Calasso plunges Western readers into the mind of ancient India. He begins with a mystery: Why is the most important god in the Rg Veda, the oldest of India's sacred texts, known by a secret name--"Ka," or Who? What ensues is not an explanation, but an unveiling. Here are the stories of the…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/2/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.15" wide x 8.03" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 0.946
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.