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“... Roberto Calasso is an Italian publisher who writes erudite works of non-fiction so elegantly self-indulgent they can be marketed as novels. He is working on a trilogy, or perhaps tetralogy, of which The Ruin of Kasch is the first part, and The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (which preceded it in English translation) the second ...”

“... fairly early in the morning. About 8.30. I am translating a book by an Italian writer called Roberto Calasso. The book is called Ka and amounts to a creative reconstruction of Indian mythology. The lines above are the first lines of the second chapter. This chapter deals with the god Prajapati, the oldest and first god, the Progenitor, and what is ...”

“... rape’. Plato is not alone in being shocked and disturbed by the prevalence of rape in the tales. Roberto Calasso’s evocation of the corpus of Greek mythology begins with a rape, and returns to the theme with numerous reflections on the metaphysics – not the ethics – of rape. In ethical terms we will not get very far with the Greek myths if outrage ...”

“... Italian publisher – from 1968 until his death in 2021, Jaeggy was married to the writer Roberto Calasso, who was also Adelphi’s editor-in-chief. The photographs, the relationship with Calasso, certain friendships – especially that with the Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann – are important to the ...”