MARRIAGE OF CADMUS & HARMONY - Tapa blanda

"The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony--erudite, clear, amusing, beautifully written--is essential reading." --The Globe and Mail

"Extraordinary...learned but also daring...brilliant, dazzling to read, a labyrinth lit by fire." --The New York Times Review of Books

"Beautifully written...Calasso reminds us with eloquence that, in this terrible world, we will come closer to perfection by knowing how to meditate on the calamity of our nature than we will by denying it." --The Toronto Star

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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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