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A captivating and highly original retelling of key stories from the Bible—the culmination of a lifetime's literary work.
A man named Saul is sent to search for some lost donkeys and on the way is named king of his people. The queen of a remote African realm travels for three years with her entourage to meet the king of Jerusalem and pose him a few riddles. A man named Abraham hears a divine voice speaking words that reverberate throughout the Bible: 'Go away from your land, from your kindred and from the house of your father toward the land that I will show you.'
In The Book of All Books, Roberto Calasso weaves together stories of promise and separation from one of the founding texts of Western civilization. These tales of grace and guilt, of the chosen and the damned, cast many Biblical figures and indeed the whole book in a light as astonishing as it is disquieting.
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The Book of All Books by Roberto Calasso is acclaimed for its intellectual thrill and artful approach, weaving biblical tales with mythological thinking and modern cultural reflections. Critics praise its engaging narrative, enriched by later Jewish legends and other mythologies, and commend Tim Parks's translation for making the work accessible and often entertaining. The book is celebrated for its wide-ranging erudition and thought-provoking insights, appealing to readers with diverse levels of biblical knowledge.
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ISBN: 9780141992860
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 17 November 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Contributors:
- Translated by Tim Parks
- Translated by Tim Parks
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 337g
Pages: 464
About the Author
Roberto Calasso (Author) Roberto Calasso (1941-2021) was the director of the renowned Italian publishing house Adelphi Edizioni and the author of numerous books, including the international bestseller The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, a touchstone in his wide-ranging series of works that map the emergence of mind from myth to modernity. The series began with The Ruin of Kasch and also includes Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink, La Folie Baudelaire, Ardor, The Celestial Hunter and The Unnamable Present. Tim Parks (Translator) Tim Parks moved to Italy in 1981 and lives in Milan. Well known for his non-fiction writings on Italy - Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education - and his novels - Europa (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Destiny, In Extremis - he has translated a number of Italian writers, in particular Macchiavelli, Leopardi, Moravia, Calvino, Tabucchi and Calasso. He has twice been awarded the John Florio Prize for Translation from the Italian.
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