by Roberto Calasso · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433913852
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In 'The Forty-Nine Steps', Roberto Calasso explores the path to truth through the Talmudic tradition, paying homage to key figures of modern thought such as Walter Benjamin and Alfred Hitchcock. This volume gathers essays written over twenty years, where Calasso analyzes with rigor and subtlety intellectuals and writers such as Nietzsche, Freud, Kraus, and Simone Weil, tracing a map of the intellectual substrate of our time.
Roberto Calasso was an Italian writer and publisher. Apart from his mother tongue, Calasso was fluent in French, English, Spanish, German, Latin and ancient Greek. He also studied Sanskrit. He has been called "a literary institution of one". The fundamental thematic concept of his œuvre is the relationship between myth and the emergence of modern consciousness.
