Roberto Calasso - Bibliography

Writer, born in Florence, Tuscany, NC Italy. The editorial director of the Adelphi publishing house, he often employs a fragmentary narrative technique in novels which give a new treatment to ancient Indian myths (Ka, 1996) or re-interpret Greek mythology moving between the old legends and the poets who reworked them (Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia, 1988). Other works include Monologo fatale (1969), Impuro folle (1974), and La rovina di Kash (1983).

His books have from 1990 been translated into most European languages.

Bibliography

Bibliography in Italian

Novels

L'impuro folle, Milan: Adelphi, 1974 La rovina di Kasch, Milan: Adelphi, 1983. Translated in English as The Ruin of Kasch. Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia, Milan: Adelphi, 1988. Translated as The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony. Translated as Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India and Ka: The Story of Garuda K., Milan: Adelphi, 2002. Translated as K.

Essays

I quarantanove gradini, Milan: Adelphi, 1991. Translated as The Forty-nine Steps. Bruce Chatwin Fotografo, editor, Milan: Adelphi, 1998. Translated as Winding Paths: Photographs by Bruce Chatwin. La letteratura e gli dèi, Milan: Adelphi, 2001. Translated as Literature and the Gods. Cento lettere a uno sconosciuto, Milan: Adelphi, 2003 La follia che viene dalle Ninfe, Milan: Adelphi, 2005

Lectures and articles

L'editoria come genere letterario, lecture given October 17 in Moscow, for an exhibition on the Adelphi publishing company;

English translations

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, translated by Tim Parks, New York: Knopf, 1993. The Ruin of Kasch , translated by William Weaver and Stephen Sartarelli, 1994. Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India, translated by Tim Parks, New York: Knopf, 1998. Literature and the Gods, translated by Tim Parks, New York: Knopf, 2000. The Forty-nine Steps, translated by John Shepley, 2001. K, translated by Geoffrey Brock, 2005.