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Roberto Calasso
Biography
Roberto Calasso was born in 1941 in Florence. He studied at the University of Rome, doing a doctorate in English literature. He became editorial director of the publisher Adelphi, which publishes his works. He has also been named visiting professor at Oxford University. He has published a series of works which are, in most cases, both novels as well as philosophical meditations on history and myth. He died in 2021.
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Biografia Roberto Calasso (in Italian)
Roberto Calasso – Le parole provocate col rasoio (article by Calasso – in Italian)
Bibliography
1974 L’impuro folle (novel)
1983 La rovina di Kasch (The Ruin of Kasch) (novel)
1988 Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia (The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony) (novel)
1991 I quarantanove gradini (The Forty-nine Steps) (essays)
1996 Ka (Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India; Ka: The Story of Garuda) (novel)
1998 Sentieri tortuosi. Bruce Chatwin Fotografo (Winding Paths: Photographs by Bruce Chatwin) (essay)
2001 La letteratura e gli dèi (Literature and the Gods) (essay)
2002 K (K) (novel)
2003 Cento lettere a uno sconosciuto (essay)
2005 La follia che viene dalle Ninfe (essay)
2006 Il rosa Tiepolo (Tiepolo Pink) (novel)
2008 La folie Baudelaire (Baudelaire’s Folly) (novel)
2010 L’Ardore (Ardor)
2013 L’impronta dell’editore (The Art of the Publisher)
2016 Il Cacciatore Celeste (mythology)
2017 L’innominabile attuale (The Unnamable Present)
2019 Il libro di tutti i libri (The Book of All Books)
2020 La Tavoletta dei Destini (The Tablet of Destinies)
2020 Come ordinare una biblioteca
2021 Allucinazioni americane
2021 Bobi
2021 Memè Scianca
2021 Ciò che si trova solo in Baudelaire
2022 Sotto gli occhi dell’Agnello
2022 L’impronta dell’editore