Ka

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Roberto Calasso is the author of many books including the international bestseller The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony and The Ruin of Kasch , both parts of a work in progress of which The Unnamable Present is part nine. Zusammenfassung 'To read Ka is to experience a giddy invasion of stories - brilliant, enigmatic, troubling, outrageous, erotic, beautiful' The New York Times 'Who?' - or ' ka' - is the question that runs through Roberto Calasso's retelling of the stories of the minds and gods of India; the primordial question that continues to haunt human existence. From the Rigveda to the Upanishads , the Mahabharata to the life of Buddha, this book delves into the corpus of classical Sanskrit literature to re-imagine the ancient Indian myths and how they resonate through space and time. 'The very best book about Hindu mythology that anyone has ever written' Wendy Doniger 'Dazzling, complex, utterly original ... Ka is his masterpiece' Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Roberto Calasso, Calasso Roberto
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780241399224
• ISBN: 978-0-241-39922-4
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, RELIGION / Hinduism / Sacred Writings, Folklore, myths & legends, Folklore, myths and legends, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Hindu Sacred Texts, Hindu texts: Vedas, Upanishads, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)