In this magisterial work, Italian intellectual superstar Roberto Calasso illuminates the Bible in a revelatory new light, unveiling astonishing and disquieting truths within its pages.
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. From the tale of Saul, who became the first king of a people because his father sent him to search for lost donkeys, to the queen of a remote African realm who traveled three years to ask Jerusalem's king certain questions, to Abraham, who heard the divine command to leave his homeland behind, Calasso traces the reverberations of these stories throughout the Bible's tapestry of separations and promises.
Paralleling in many ways Calasso's earlier work The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, which shed new light on the gods and heroes of Greek myths, The Book of All Books illuminates the figures and themes of the Bible in a startling and thought-provoking new way. Calasso's signature erudition and insight cast fresh perspective on a work that is often shrouded in mystery, revealing unexpected truths that are at once astonishing and disquieting.
