Roberto Calasso
1941
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2021
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
Country of citizenship: Italy
Educated at: Sapienza University of Rome
Occupation: writer, publisher, editor, essayist, university teacher
Award received: Martin Warnke Medal, Bagutta Prize, Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon, Prix Formentor, Ambrogino d'oro
Student of: Mario Praz
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Roberto Calasso (30 May 1941 – 28 July 2021) was an Italian writer and publisher. Apart from his mother tongue, Calasso was fluent in French, English, Spanish, German, Latin and ancient Greek. He also studied Sanskrit. He has been called "a literary institution of one". The fundamental thematic concept of his œuvre is the relationship between myth and the emergence of modern consciousness. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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Literature and the Gods
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
Ka
Le rose Tiepolo
Le fou impur
El ardor
Ce qui est unique chez Baudelaire
Der Traum Baudelaires
Der Himmlische Jäger
Das unnennbare Heute
Das Buch aller Bücher
K.
The Ruin of Kasch
La folie qui vient des Nymphes
Les quarante-neuf degrés
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