Literature and the Gods
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Publish date: 03/01/2001
Calasso sets out to uncover the divine -- godly or otherwise -- in specific texts, and finds it in what he calls "absolute literature". With its roots in early Vedic verse, absolute literature reached the apex of its expression during the period beginning with the German Romantics in 1798 and ending with Mallarme's death in 1898. But Calasso also discovers the divine in the work of Valery, Auden, Yeats, Montale, Borges, and Nabokov, and reveals how these writers, in their own very particular ways, were articulating the same unnameable thing. Finally, he delineates the timeless, ever-mysterious laws that surround the creative act itself.
With Literature and the Gods, Roberto Calasso profoundly deepens our understanding of our literary tradition. It is, itself, a literary masterpiece.
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