CALASSO: OUR NEW MEME WRITER

Let me introduce you to Roberto Calasso.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Calasso

Put away your Stirners and Evolas, your Joyces and Wallaces: he's our new meme.

>Owner of most aesthetic publishing house of the world: Adelphi (also one of the most important Italian Publishing houses, first introducing Nietzsche, Guenon, Kerenyi, W.F. Otto and many many others to the Italian public).
>Has read every book ever, even you diary.
>Author of an unnamned magnum opus counting (to now) 8 novel/essay or whatever you would like to call the things he writes
>mixes anthropology, esotericism, philosophy, historical anecdotes and storytelling
>magnum opus meant to explain everything about everything
>basically a living Renaissance man
>Last Italian intellectual alive
>Possibly crypto-nazi
>Accused of leading a satanic revolution to reintroduce hedonistic pagan cults (Cfr. 'Gli Adelphi della Dissoluzione')
>Books are available in English
>Just as your favorite writers, you'll never fully get what he's saying
>You can keep playing with his books forever

What the fuck are you waiting for? Why are you not reading Calasso yet? Run to your local bookstore, NOW! This is /ourguy/!
Reading suggestions:
Essay - Literature and the Gods
"Narrative" (or whatever you'd call his non-non-fiction works) - The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (second of the magnum opus, works well as a stand-alone intro to Calasso's style).

Other urls found in this thread:

theparisreview.org/interviews/6168/roberto-calasso-the-art-of-fiction-no-217-roberto-calasso
youtube.com/watch?v=okwJB3FRDo8&t=615s
twitter.com/SFWRedditGifs

Also, the guy looked like a fucking god when he was young.
Don't lie: you would have fucked him.

Check this interview if you are curious about his life. There are details of him writing his dissertation on hashish in London.

theparisreview.org/interviews/6168/roberto-calasso-the-art-of-fiction-no-217-roberto-calasso

I've been pushing Calasso for years, glad he's finally getting some recognition on here.

Here's a good interview between him and a fawning Italian succubus he introduced to the esoteric rituals of Venus.

youtube.com/watch?v=okwJB3FRDo8&t=615s

That white bitch needs to check her cultural appropriation.

OP here

I'm working with you man!! I'm doing the same. In Italy he's actually pretty known (at least among people who like that 'unrepentant ex-nazis with mystical leanings' kind of literature)

thanks will check it out next time I go back to Italy and pick up his book
BTW any other good less know writers published on Adelphi I should check out? I can recommend Daumal, Schwob and Caraco (last one for French or Italian speakers only)

There is stuffy by Carlo Rovelli - divulgative works on science - I have never read, but a friend told me they are good.
I personally enjoy Walter Friederich Otto. Also, anything from Giorgio Colli if you are into Greek philosophy/myth (especially presocratics).

Also, God tier: suggests to read Plato's Republic.

>Last Italian intellectual alive

'no'

There is no way this guy wasn't spoofed in Foucault's Pendulum, he reads like one of the characters