An extraordinary tale of transformation from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisher
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.
Beguiling, captivating, vital ... Informed by myth, this damning
exploration of man's detachment from the animal world is ninth in a
staggeringly learned series
*Guardian*
The Celestial Hunter is an "initiation through the book",
speculative but capable of changing how you see things
*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"
*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
*New York Times*
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