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Ka by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'To read Ka is to experience a giddy invasion of stories - brilliant, enigmatic, troubling, outrageous, erotic, beautiful' The New York Times'Who?' - or 'ka' - is the question that runs through... -
K. by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when?In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but... -
Ardor by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people who lived... -
The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain'In this fascinating memoir and manifesto the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book... -
The Unnamable Present by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians: in this book Roberto Calasso considers the tribes that inhabit and inform the world today. A world that... -
Tiepolo Pink by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe'The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes that are among the glories of Western art, yet he ... -
The Celestial Hunter by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'A poetic, erudite exploration of history and myth' Financial TimesAn unforgettable journey through centuries and across cultures to the pivotal moment in evolution - when humans did something that... -
Bobi by Roberto Calasso 9788433949264
Booksplease Price: £12.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433949264Author Roberto CalassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
K. by Roberto Calasso 9781400076123
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £15.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400076123Author Roberto CalassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
The Tablet of Destinies by Roberto Calasso 9780141998459
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great FloodA long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood to destroy them. But Ea, the... -
The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso 9780374252106
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £20.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374252106Author Roberto CalassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint -
The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso 9780141397016
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is... -
The Book of All Books by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Beautiful, intellectually thrilling . . . unlike anything else' TelegraphPromise and separation. Grace and guilt. The chosen and the damned. Roberto Calasso's captivating retelling of key stories... -
Literature and the Gods by Roberto Calasso 9780375725432
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £14.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725432Author Roberto CalassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Roberto Calasso is one of the most original and acclaimed of writers on literature, art, culture and mythology. In Baudelaire's Folly, Calasso turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in... -
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.79'It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the origins of Western self-consciousness' Simon SchamaThe marriage of... -
The Tablet of Destinies by Roberto Calasso 9781250872944
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £10.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250872944Author Roberto CalassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy 9780811229036
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.83A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: "At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell." But... -
Poetic Gesture: Myth, Wallace Stevens, and the Desirous Motions of Poetic Language by Kristine S. Santilli 9780415866897
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This study addresses the problem of meaning as it is conveyed by poetic language, attempting to move beyond some of the obstacles and boundaries of contemporary critical approaches. By providing a... -
All Desire is a Desire for Being by René Girard 9780241543238
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desireWhy do humans have such a remarkable capacity for conflict? From ancient foundational... -
Permanent Liminality and Modernity: Analysing the Sacrificial Carnival through Novels Arpad Szakolczai (University College Cork, Ireland) 9780367184667
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This book offers a comprehensive sociological study of the nature and dynamics of the modern world, through the use of a series of anthropological concepts, including the trickster, schismogenesis,... -
Count Luna by Alexander Lernet-Holenia 9780241649541
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A book so astonishing that I immediately reread it, fearful it might disappear' Patti SmithThe war is over but Alexander Jessiersky, a wealthy Austrian aristocrat and industrialist, is haunted by... -
A Double Thread by John Gross 9780099422266
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49John Gross was the son of a Jewish doctor who practised in Mile End at the time of WW2. His parents were the children of immigrants, steeped in the language and traditions of a European past, yet... -
Political Anthropology as Method Arpad Szakolczai (University College Cork, Ireland) 9781032230023
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14This book explores considerations of method in the field of political anthropology, contending that this constitutes a distinct approach within the broader area of the human, social and political... -
Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary by Arpad Szakolczai
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book substantiates two claims. First, the modern world was not simply produced by "objective" factors, rooted in geographical discoveries and scientific inventions, to be traced to economic,... -
Post-Truth Society: A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic Arpad Szakolczai (University College Cork, Ireland) 9781032126456
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means, this book argues, is that the contemporary global world is thoroughly infested not only with trickster figures... -
Who Among Us? by Mario Benedetti 9780241350997
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'This novel is a jewel ... one of those books that enters the soul, which it is impossible not to be conquered by. It is a masterpiece like few others' Huffington PostMiguel and Alicia fall... -
Critical Theory and the Classical World by Martyn Hudson
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This book radically re-examines Europe's imaginaries of its origin in the ancient Greek world. Extracting central concepts of critical theory in its widest sense - beyond the Frankfurt School - like... -
Baron Bagge by Alexander Lernet-Holenia 9780241752449
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.74Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade... -
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel 9780300151305
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99A celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire,... -
Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able... -
The Zurau Aphorisms by Franz Kafka 9781846558382
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Franz Kafka spent eight months at his sister's house in Zurau between September 1917 and April 1918, enduring the onset of tuberculosis. Illness paradoxically set him free to write, in a series of... -
Notes Without a Text by Roberto Bazlen 9781628973129
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.01An advisor to Italian publishing houses, a translator of Freud and Jung, a friend of Montale and Calvino, Roberto Bazlen was nothing if not a literary man, but kept his writings to himself.Here,... -
Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty... -
Silk Alessandro Baricco 9781786896421
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In 1861 French silkworm merchant Herve Joncour travels to Japan, where he encounters the mysterious Hara Kei. He develops a painful longing for Kei's beautiful concubine - but they cannot touch; they... -
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Elegantly written, full of wit and charm, this is travel writing at its very best' Orlando FigesIn the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led... -
The World Machine by Paolo Volponi 9781803093765
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99A vivid and unforgettable novelistic portrait of rural Italy, exploring the nature of reality and the human condition. A small-time farmer living in central Italy in the 1960s is the keeper of a... -
Night Bus Ann Goldstein 9781904738114
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Leila is young, beautiful and a hustler. She robs hapless men picked up in the trendy nightclubs of Bologna. Easy money, until she ends up with a document at the centre of a carefully crafted plot of... -
Difficult Loves and Other Stories by Italo Calvino
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A spectacular display of this key European writer's early workThis dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates... -
The Living Goddess: A Journey into the Heart of Kathmandu by Isabella Tree 9781780600468
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.88In a small medieval palace on Kathmandu's Durbar Square lives Nepal's famous Living Goddess - a child as young as three who is chosen from a caste of Buddhist goldsmiths to watch over the country and...