The Marriage Of Cadmus And Harmony - Softcover

Calasso, Roberto

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9780099308010: The Marriage Of Cadmus And Harmony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099308010 ISBN 13: 9780099308010

Publisher: Vintage, 1994

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THE MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY is a book without any modern parallel. Forming an active link in a chain that reaches back through Ovid's METAMORPHOSES directly to Homer, Roberto Calasso's re-exploration of the fantastic fables and mysteries we may only think we know explodes the entire world of Greek mythology, pieces it back together, and presents it to us in a new, and astonishing, and utterly contempory way.

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Review:

"A dynamic encounter between modernity and the oldest stories known to Europe." (Robin Blake The Independent)

"I have no idea whether or not Roberto Calasso is a 'genius' but I do know that The Marriage Of Cadmus and Harmony is a perfect work like no other" (Gore Vidal)

"It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the origins of Western self-consciousness" (Simon Schama)

"A masterpiece...a wonderfully fashioned work of art" (John Banville Irish Times)

"A brilliant and profound narration" (A. S. Byatt The Times)

Book Description:

Greco-Roman mythology meets and shapes a contemporary novel to form a book that is unprecedented and wonderful.

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