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Stories of the Mind and Gods of India
A giddy invasion of stories--brilliant, enigmatic, troubling, outrageous, erotic, beautiful. --The New York Times Book ReviewSo brilliant that you can't look at it anymore--and you can't look at anything else. . . . No one will read it without reward. --The Boston GlobeWith the same narrative fecundity and imaginative sympathy he brought to his acclaimed retelling of the Greek myths, Roberto Calasso plunges Western readers into the mind of ancient India. He begins with a mystery: Why is the most important god in the Rg Veda, the oldest of India's sacred texts, known by a secret name--Ka, or Who? What ensues is not an explanation, but an u…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-679-77547-8
- EAN: 9780679775478
- Produktnummer: 9283551
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 464 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.0 cm x D2.7 cm 368 g
- Gewicht: 368
Über den Autor
Roberto Calasso lives in Milan, Italy.
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