The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (First American Edition)

Roberto Calasso

ISBN 10: 0394581547 / ISBN 13: 9780394581545

Edité par Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1993

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First American edition. First printing. Hardcover. Quarter blue cloth over red paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($25.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy. Octavo, 405 pages, including sources. Top edge stained red. A retelling of classical Greek myth and its afterlives, interwoven with literary and philosophical reflection. This was Calasso s first book published in America. It won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Prix Méditerranée étranger, the Prix Chateaubriand, and the Prix Veillon in France and francophone Europe. This book came from the library of writer WALTER ABISH, and it is signed by him on the front end paper. Note: Tiny closed tear to jacket at head of spine.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (First American Edition)
• Éditeur: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0394581547
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780394581545
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Italian Literature

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Synopsis

Book by Roberto Calasso

Présentation de l'éditeur

But where did it all begin?  No better answer to that question exists than in the Greek myths that are retold to breathtaking effect Roberto Calasso.  Presenting the stories of Zeus and Europa, Theseus and Ariadne, the birth of Athens and the fall of Troy, in all their variants, Calasso uncovers the origins of secrets and tragedy, virginity and rape, and above all, humanity's tormented relations with the gods.  The result is an international literary event, a work of spellbinding playfulness, eroticism wonder.
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