The tablet of destinies
"Roberto Calasso, "a literary institution of one" (The Paris Review), tells the story of the eternal life of Utnapishtim, the savior of man, in the eleventh part of his great literary project"--
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Italian |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2022.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | "Roberto Calasso, "a literary institution of one" (The Paris Review), tells the story of the eternal life of Utnapishtim, the savior of man, in the eleventh part of his great literary project"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. Originally published in Italian in 2020 by Adelphi Edizioni, Italy, as La Tavoletta Dei Destini. |
| Physical Description: | 111 pages; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780374605018 0374605017 |
| Author Notes: | Roberto Calasso (1941-2021) was born in Florence and lived in Milan. Begun in 1983 with The Ruin of Kasch , his landmark series now comprises The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony , Ka , K. , Tiepolo Pink , La Folie Baudelaire , Ardor , The Celestial Hunter , The Unnamable Present , The Book of All Books, and now The Tablet of Destinies . Calasso also wrote the novel The Impure Fool and eight books of essays, the first three of which have been published in English: The Art of the Publisher , The Forty-Nine Steps , Literature and the Gods , The Madness That Comes from the Nymphs , One Hundred Letters to an Unknown Reader , The Hieroglyphs of Sir Thomas Browne , The Rule of the Good Neighbor; or, How to Find an Order for Your Books , and American Allucinations . He was the publisher of Adelphi Edizioni. |
