Book of All Books

A book that begins before Adam and ends after us. In this magisterial work by the Italian intellectual superstar Roberto Calasso, figures of the Bible and its whole outline emerge in a new light: one that is often astonishing and disquieting, as indeed?more than any other?is the book from which they originate. Roberto Calasso?s The Book of All Books is a narration that moves through the Bible as if through a forest, where every branch?every verse?may offer some revelation. Where a man named Saul becomes the first king of a people because his father sent him off to search for some donkeys that had gone astray. Where, in answer to an invitation from Jerusalem?s king, the queen of a remote African realm spends three years leading a long caravan of young men, girls dressed in purple, and animals, and with large quantities of spices, to ask the king certain questions. And where a man named Abraham hears these words from a divine voice: ?Go away from your land, from your country and from the house of your father toward the land that I will show you??words that reverberate throughout the Bible, a story about a separation and a promise followed by many other separations and promises. The Book of All Books, the tenth part of a series, parallels in many ways the second part, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony. There, gods and heroes of the Greek myths revealed new physiognomies, whereas here the age-old figures and stories of the Bible are illuminated anew.

Author: Roberto Calasso

Publisher: Picador Paper

Publication Date: Nov 15, 2022

Number of Pages: 464 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback/Religion

ISBN-10: 1250859026

ISBN-13: 9781250859020