New to Penguin Modern Classics- a captivating exploration of the work of one of Italy's most influential - and least understood - painters.
Roberto Calasso was born in Florence in 1941. An author and publisher, he began working at Adelphi Edizioni from its founding in 1962 and continued as director for fifty years. The Book of All Books is the tenth part of a series that began with The Ruin of Kasch and includes the international bestseller The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony as well as Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink, La Folie Baudelaire, Ardor, The Celestial Hunter and The Unnamable Present. He died in Milan in 2021.
Calasso has written a brilliant, eccentric, provocative, annoying,
and thoroughly splendid celebration of a great painter.
*The New Republic*
As one has come to expect of this polyglot and polymathic author,
the range of references that inform his viewings is broad, deep and
effortless
*The Art Newspaper*
The next best thing to visiting Europe and seeing the painter's
work . . . Calasso is one of the most demanding and intoxicating
critics writing today.
*Los Angeles Times*
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