Roberto Calasso
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Roberto Calasso (born 1941, Florence) is an Italian publisher and author. His books have from 1990 been translated into most European languages. He studied English literature. After a successful career in publishing he has become a leading intellectual.
He has been apparently pursuing a self-alliterating course of titles: Cadmus (The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony), on Greek mythology); Kasch (The Ruin of Kasch) on modernity; Ka (Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India, on Indian mythology); Quarantanove (49 in Italian) (The Forty-nine Steps, philosophy, addressed to Pierre Klossowski and his wife); even Garuda (The Story of Garuda, Hindu myth); and Kafka (K). In so doing he has traced a very broad path.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Bibliography in Italian
Novels
- L'impuro folle, Milan: Adelphi, 1974
- La rovina di Kasch, Milan: Adelphi, 1983. Translated in English as The Ruin of Kasch.
- Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia, Milan: Adelphi, 1988. Translated as The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony.
- Ka, Milan: Adelphi, 1996. Translated as Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India and Ka: The Story of Garuda
- K., Milan: Adelphi, 2002. Translated as K.
Essays
- I quarantanove gradini, Milan: Adelphi, 1991. Translated as The Forty-nine Steps.
- Sentieri tortuosi. Bruce Chatwin Fotografo, editor, Milan: Adelphi, 1998. Translated as Winding Paths: Photographs by Bruce Chatwin.
- La letteratura e gli dèi, Milan: Adelphi, 2001. Translated as Literature and the Gods.
- Cento lettere a uno sconosciuto, Milan: Adelphi, 2003
- La follia che viene dalle Ninfe, Milan: Adelphi, 2005
Lectures and articles
- L'editoria come genere letterario, lecture given October 17 in Moscow, for an exhibition on the Adelphi publishing company; published on the on-line literary review "Adelphiana", November 16 2001 http://www.adelphiana.it/pdf/Calasso.pdf PDF
[edit] English translations
- The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, translated by Tim Parks, New York: Knopf, 1993.
- The Ruin of Kasch , translated by William Weaver and Stephen Sartarelli, 1994. On modernity.
- Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India, translated by Tim Parks, New York: Knopf, 1998.
- Winding Paths: Photographs by Bruce Chatwin, 1999.
- Erotic Anger: A User's Manual, with Gérard Pommier, 2001. Psychoanalysis.
- Literature and the Gods, translated by Tim Parks, New York: Knopf, 2000. Based on Weidenfeld Lectures at Oxford.
- The Forty-nine Steps, translated by John Shepley, 2001.
- K, translated by Geoffrey Brock, 2005.
- Ka: The Story of Garuda, retold by Geeta Dharmarajan, illustrations by Suddhasattwa Basu, Katha, 2005.
