The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (First American Edition)

Roberto Calasso

ISBN 10: 0394581547 / ISBN 13: 9780394581545

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1993

About this Item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First American edition. First printing. Hardcover. Quarter blue cloth over red paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($25.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy. Octavo, 405 pages, including sources. Top edge stained red. A retelling of classical Greek myth and its afterlives, interwoven with literary and philosophical reflection. This was Calasso s first book published in America. It won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Prix Méditerranée étranger, the Prix Chateaubriand, and the Prix Veillon in France and francophone Europe. This book came from the library of writer WALTER ABISH, and it is signed by him on the front end paper. Note: Tiny closed tear to jacket at head of spine.

Seller Inventory # Literature-Calasso-3

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (First American Edition)
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394581547
• ISBN 13: 9780394581545
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Italian Literature

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Synopsis

A unique reinterpretation of Greek mythology leads readers back to the time when the gods had not yet been born and moves through mythological history to the wedding of Cadmus and Harmony, at which time the world was handed over to mortal men. 10,000 first printing.

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)