The Tablet of Destinies - Roberto Calasso

The Tablet of Destinies

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
128 Seiten
2023
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-199845-9 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great Flood

A long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood to destroy them. But Ea, the god of fresh underground water, didn't agree. He advised one of his devotees, Utnapishtim, to build a quadrangular boat to house humans and animals, and saved these living creatures from the Flood.

Rather than punish Utnapishtim for his disobedience, Enlil, King of the gods, granted the mortal eternal life and banished him to the island of Dilmun. Thousands of years later, when Sinbad the Sailor is shipwrecked and arrives on that very same island, the two begin a conversation about courage, loss, salvation and sacrifice.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum
Übersetzer Tim Parks
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 128 x 194 mm
Gewicht 100 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-14-199845-8 / 0141998458
ISBN-13 978-0-14-199845-9 / 9780141998459
Zustand Neuware
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