La letteratura e gli dei

This is a knitted and knotted exegesis on the role and symbolism of the divine in the literary arts, largely poetry in the 19th century. Like the rest of Calasso, that thesis is but a point of departure to a sinuous journey which broaches a kaleidoscope of concepts and figures. Whether the pretexts s Leggi tutto

"What are writers talking about when they name the gods?" An important question, though Calasso comes obnoxiously close to answering "they are talking about themselves." Poet Stéphane Mallarmé plays a central part in these essays. It is assumed the gods of antiquity were "pagan" gods and to this Cal Leggi tutto

Literature and the Gods is a short, dense essay rather than the more literary-historical or conspective account the title might lead one to expect. In fact, Calasso has a refined Continental theorists’s contempt for mere literary history, which he seems to regard as a vast exercise in missing the po Leggi tutto

Calasso non me sbaglia una. "Ninfa è il medium dove gli dèi e gli uomini avventurosi si incontrano. Quanto agli dèi, come riconoscerli ? In questo, gli scrittori sono sempre stati felicemente spregiudicati. Hanno sempre agito come se sottintendessero una illuminata osservazione di Erza Pound: <>. Scr Leggi tutto

Calasso's careful consideration of the rise of what he terms "absolute literature". Calasso is someone who has found the things he loves (mythology, particularly Greek and Hindu, and literature, particularly poetry, and even more particularly Romanticism) and in loving them, has consumed them in the Leggi tutto

Wish I understood all of this.

Este libro me cogió completamente por sorpresa, no era en absoluto lo que esperaba. La primera mitad me atrapó mucho más que la segunda. Se sentía como estar en casa, junto a la chimenea con una manta, escuchando a alguien contar historias que al principio parecían no tener nada que ver entre sí, pe Leggi tutto