An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great FloodA long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood to destroy them...
What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when?In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel th...
'It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the origins of Western self-consciousness' Simon SchamaThe mar...
A splendid reimagining of key stories from the Bible, by the author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony.A man named Saul is sent to search for some lost donkeys and on the way is name...
'Beautiful, intellectually thrilling . . . unlike anything else' TelegraphPromise and separation. Grace and guilt. The chosen and the damned. Roberto Calasso's captivating retelling of ...