Roberto Calasso - The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (pdf)
- Type:
- Other > E-books
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- 4
- Size:
- 6.01 MB
- Texted language(s):
- English
- Tag(s):
- Mythology Philosophy
- Uploaded:
- Jul 3, 2013
- By:
- pharmakate
Roberto Calasso - The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Knopf, 1993). 403 pages. New scan. Searchable pdf (clearscan) with contents in bookmarks, accurate pagination and metadata, etc. description: THE MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY is a book without any modern parallel. Forming an active link in a chain that reaches back through Ovid's METAMORPHOSES directly to Homer, Roberto Calasso's re-exploration of the fantastic fables and mysteries we may only think we know explodes the entire world of Greek mythology, pieces it back together, and presents it to us in a new, and astonishing, and utterly contemporary way. "I have no idea whether or not Roberto Calasso is a 'genius' but I do know that The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony is a perfect work like no other. He has re-created, in a blaze of light, the morning of our world: the gods, heroes, monsters of the Greeks are made mysterious sense of in what is, finally, a numinous text to be placed beside -- ahead of? -- Old and New Testaments." -- Gore Vidal
Oh my...this will be rewarding, to be sure! Thanks so much.
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