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New York, NY: Random House: Vintage International. Near Fine. 2006. 1st Edition USA; First Printing. Paperback. First Editon Thus Uin the USA (2006). First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows two pages creased in the "Sources" section at the end of the book; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the actual text.. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a single, unobtrusive imperfection. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8 x 5.25 x 0.75 inches). 327 pages. Translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock. Language: English. Weight: 9.2 ounces. Trade Paperback. Roberto Calasso (1941 – 2021) 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. He was the author of an unnamed ongoing work reflecting on the culture of modernity, which began with The Ruin of Kasch in 1983, a book much admired by Italo Calvino. It was followed in 1988 by The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, in which the tale of Cadmus and his wife Harmonia becomes a pretext for re-telling the great tales of Greek mythology and reflecting on the reception of Greek culture for a contemporary readership. Another world civilization is surveyed in Ka (1996) where the subject of the re-telling is Hindu mythology. K restricts the focus to a single author, Franz Kafka, but the themes continue: What are Kafka’s fictions about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Countless answers have been offered, but the essential mystery remains intact. Setting out on his own exploration, Roberto Calasso enters the flow, the tortuous movement, the physiology of Kafka’s work to discover why K. And Josef K. –the protagonists of The Castle and The Trial–are so radically different from any other character in the history of the novel, and to determine who, in the end, is K. The culmination of Calasso’s lifelong fascination with Kafka’s work, K. Is also an unprecedented consideration of the mystery of Kafka himself. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 327 pages .