by Roberto Calasso · Editions Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070722068
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«Les noces de Cadmos et Harmonie» is Roberto Calasso's essay on Greek mythology, published by Gallimard in paperback (420 pages, in French).
The work starts from the last wedding at which the Olympian gods sat at table with mortals to unfold the tree of Greek myth. Calasso interweaves fables and details, and asks why the gods took human form, what the simulacrum is, why the age of heroes was brief and turbulent, and what Zeus feels threatened by.
Original Italian work «Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia» (1988); translation by Jean-Paul Manganaro with Camille Dumoulié. Winner of the Prix européen de l’essai Charles Veillon in 1991.
For readers of Greek mythology and classical literature; combines essay, philosophy, and mythical narrative.
