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050 00 $aBS1175.3$b.C3413 2021
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100 1 $aCalasso, Roberto,$eauthor.
240 10 $aLibro di tutti i libri.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe book of all books /$cRoberto Calasso ; translated from the Italian by Tim Parks.
250 $aFirst American edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2021.
264 4 $3Translation$c©2021
300 $a450 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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500 $a"Originally published in Italian in 2019 by Adelphi Edizioni, Italy, as Il libro di tutti i libri."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [389]-434) and index.
505 00 $tThe Torah in heaven --$tSaul and Samuel --$tDavid --$tSolomon --$tWicked heights --$tThose who went away --$tMoses --$tAn unredeemed ghost --$tThe first generations --$tEzekiel sees --$tAround the ruined temple --$tThe Messiah.
520 $a"A book that begins before Adam and ends after us. In this magisterial work, figures of the Bible and its whole outline emerge in a new light: one that is often astonishing and disquieting, as indeed is the book from which they originate. Roberto Calasso's The Book of All Books is a narration that moves through the Bible as if through a forest, where every branch--every verse--may offer some revelation. Where a man named Saul becomes the first king of a people because his father sent him off to search for some donkeys that had gone astray. Where, in answer to an invitation from Jerusalem's king, the queen of a remote African realm spends three years leading a long caravan of young men, girls dressed in purple, and animals, and with large quantities of spices, to ask the king certain questions. And where a man named Abraham hears these words from a divine voice: "Go away from your land, from your country and from the house of your father toward the land that I will show you"--words that reverberate throughout the Bible, a story about a separation and a promise followed by many other separations and promises. The Book of All Books, the tenth part of a series, parallels in many ways the second part, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony. There, gods and heroes of the Greek myths revealed new physiognomies, whereas here many figures of the Bible and its whole outline emerge in a new light: one that is often astonishing and disquieting, as indeed is the book--more so than any other--from which they originate."$cProvided by publisher.
534 $pOriginally published in Italian as:$tLibro di tutti i libri.$cMilano: Alephi edizioni, [2019].
546 $aTranslated into English from the Italian.
630 00 $aBible.$pOld Testament$xCriticism, interpretation, etc.
630 07 $aBible.$pOld Testament.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01808092
650 7 $aRELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General.$2bisacsh
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
700 1 $aParks, Tim,$etranslator.
765 08 $iTranslation of (expression):$aCalasso, Robert.$tLibro di tutti i libri.$dMilano : Adelphi edizioni, [2019]$z9788845934179$w(OCoLC)1124789057
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