The Celestial Hunter Roberto Calasso

Name: The Celestial Hunter By Roberto Calasso
SKU: 9780241296752
Price: 17.49 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

The Celestial Hunter by Roberto Calasso

Reviews:

$17.49

Condition - New

Out of stock

New

The Celestial Hunter Summary

The Celestial Hunter by Roberto Calasso

'A poetic, erudite exploration of history and myth' Financial Times

An 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 prey. Informed by Greek and Egyptian myth, the stories of poets, shamans and gods, Roberto Calasso's expansive exploration of our relationship to animals and sacrifice, encourages us to reframe our understanding of our place in history, and in the world.

'Calasso has created a much discussed original genre for these books ... a dense pastiche of myth, biography, criticism, philosophy, history and minutiae ... woven together by Calasso's unflagging vision' The New Yorker

The Celestial Hunter Reviews

Beguiling, captivating, vital ... Informed by myth, this damning exploration of man's detachment from the animal world is ninth in a staggeringly learned series -- Stuart Jeffries * Guardian *
The Celestial Hunter is an initiation through the book, speculative but capable of changing how you see things -- Dominic Green * Spectator *
A spellbinding modern magus . . . he writes like a poet, not a professor, in glinting, enigmatic nuggets of narrative. At a moment when atavistic kinds of peril, awe and terror seem close at hand, it feels no great stretch to share Calasso's core belief that the gods always return -- Boyd Tonkin * Financial Times *
Calasso is especially good at describing the characters of myth and legend with a novelist's omniscient authority ... leaves you feeling not out of your depth, but smarter and better read -- A. E. Stallings * New York Times *

About Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso was born in Florence in 1941. An author and publisher, he began working at Adelphi Edizioni from its founding in 1962 and continued as director for fifty years. The Book of All Books is the tenth part of a series that began with The Ruin of Kasch and includes the international bestseller The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony as well as Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink, La Folie Baudelaire, Ardor, The Celestial Hunter and The Unnamable Present. He died in Milan in 2021.

Additional information

Sku

NGR9780241296752

ISBN 13

9780241296752

ISBN 10

0241296757

Title

The Celestial Hunter by Roberto Calasso

Author

Roberto Calasso

Condition

New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Year published

2021-04-29

Number of pages

464

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

This is a new book - be the first to read this copy. With untouched pages and a perfect binding, your brand new copy is ready to be opened for the first time