The Tablet of Destinies by Roberto Calasso

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.įollowing Calasso's masterful retelling of ancient Greek myths in The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony and Indic myths in Ka, this richly imaginative work delves into the crucible of our collective consciousness to reimagine the origin stories of one of the earliest human civilizations. 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. Begun in 1983 with The Ruin of Kasch, his landmark series now comprises The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink, La Folie Baudelaire, Ardor, The Celestial Hunter, The Unnamable Present, The Book of All Books, and The Tablet of Destinies. 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. Roberto Calasso (19412021) was born in Florence and lived in Milan. But Ea, the god of fresh underground water, didn't agree. DURING HIS AMERICAN exile, on the evening of November 17, 1942, at the Library of Congress in Washington, Thomas Mann gave an address about his quadrilogy, Joseph and His Brothers (193343), the most expansive of his novels, telling the story of Joseph’s abandonment by his brothers and the life he lived in Egypt. I remember days of desperation.'Ī long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood to destroy them.

The Tablet of Destinies por Roberto Calasso - 9780374605018 Usamos cookies para ofrecerte la mejor experiencia posible. Men just went on multiplying and the noise they made was ever more irksome. The Tablet of Destinies por Roberto Calasso, 9780374605018, disponible en Book Depository con envío gratis. It came at the end of a long, tormented story. 'The Flood didn't come suddenly as a big surprise. 'The Flood didn't come suddenly as a big surprise. Read 15 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. A beguiling new reimagining of one of the most ancient and mysterious origin myths of human civilization

The Tablet of Destinies by Roberto Calasso