by Roberto Calasso · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433980052
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In 'The Unmentionable Today', Roberto Calasso offers us an erudite and forceful analysis of the contemporary world and the dangers that haunt our societies. Calasso explores secular society, terrorism, and the age of inconsistency, inviting us to reflect on our vain confidence in science and technology. A clairvoyant diagnosis of the moment in which we live.
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.
