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The book of all books
- Title
- The book of all books / Roberto Calasso ; translated from the Italian by Tim Parks.
- Author
- Calasso, Roberto
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Parks, Tim
- Description
- 450 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "A book that begins before Adam and ends after us. In this magisterial work, figures of the Bible and its whole outline emerge in a new light: one that is often astonishing and disquieting, as indeed is the book from which they originate. Roberto Calasso's The Book of All Books is a narration that moves through the Bible as if through a forest, where every branch--every verse--may offer some revelation. Where a man named Saul becomes the first king of a people because his father sent him off to search for some donkeys that had gone astray. Where, in answer to an invitation from Jerusalem's king, the queen of a remote African realm spends three years leading a long caravan of young men, girls dressed in purple, and animals, and with large quantities of spices, to ask the king certain questions. And where a man named Abraham hears these words from a divine voice: "Go away from your land, from your country and from the house of your father toward the land that I will show you"--words that reverberate throughout the Bible, a story about a separation and a promise followed by many other separations and promises. The Book of All Books, the tenth part of a series, parallels in many ways the second part, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony. There, gods and heroes of the Greek myths revealed new physiognomies, whereas here many figures of the Bible and its whole outline emerge in a new light: one that is often astonishing and disquieting, as indeed is the book--more so than any other--from which they originate."
- Uniform Title
- Libro di tutti i libri. English
- Alternative Title
- Libro di tutti i libri.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- "Originally published in Italian in 2019 by Adelphi Edizioni, Italy, as Il libro di tutti i libri."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [389]-434) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated into English from the Italian.
- Contents
- The Torah in heaven -- Saul and Samuel -- David -- Solomon -- Wicked heights -- Those who went away -- Moses -- An unredeemed ghost -- The first generations -- Ezekiel sees -- Around the ruined temple -- The Messiah.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-2291
- ISBN
- 9780374601898
- 0374601895
- LCCN
- 2021028288
- 40030827612
- OCLC
- 1227086224
- Author
- Calasso, Roberto, author.
- Title
- The book of all books / Roberto Calasso ; translated from the Italian by Tim Parks.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- Translation, ©2021
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [389]-434) and index.
- Original Version
- Originally published in Italian as: Libro di tutti i libri. Milano: Alephi edizioni, [2019].
- Language
- Translated into English from the Italian.
- Added Author
- Parks, Tim, translator.
- Translation Of:
- Translation of (expression): Calasso, Robert. Libro di tutti i libri. Milano : Adelphi edizioni, [2019] 9788845934179 (OCoLC)1124789057
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030827612
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-2291