by Roberto Calasso · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433931993
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«Las bodas de Cadmo y Harmonía» is the narrative and essay work by Roberto Calasso, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover (374 pages, in Spanish).
Calasso reconstructs the great web of Greek myth around the marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, the last feast of gods and mortals. Between narrative and essay, episodes such as the abduction of Europa, Theseus and Ariadne, or Phaedra pass by, while he explores why the gods assumed human form and why their stories are so unsettling.
Number 199 of the Panorama de narrativas collection, translated by Joaquín Jordá. First edition published on September 1, 1990.
For readers of contemporary fiction and classical mythology seeking a literary, erudite and reflective approach to the Greek world.
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.
