The forty-nine steps / Roberto Calasso ; translated by John Shepley.
The forty-nine steps / Roberto Calasso ; translated by John Shepley.
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Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.
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N190/114
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English
Italian
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Physical content
xi, 290 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
I. Post-Histories -- 1. Fatal Monologue -- 2. The Sleep of the Calligrapher -- 3. Deesses entretenues -- 4. Enamel Scar -- 5. On the Fundamentals of the Coca-Cola Bottle -- 6. The Perpetual War -- II. Exegesis -- 7. The Forty-nine Steps -- 8. The Superior Man and the Absolute Cocotte -- 9. The Ordea...
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Publisher
Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.
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Minnesota
Date Published
c2001.
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Summary
""Forty-nine steps" refers to the Talmudic doctrine that there are forty-nine steps to meaning in every passage of the Torah. Employing this interpretive approach, Calasso offers a "secret history" of European literature and philosophy in the wake of Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud. Calasso analyzes how figures ranging from Gustav Flaubert, Gottfried Be...
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The forty-nine steps / Roberto Calasso ; translated by John Shepley.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-288).
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c2001.
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N190/114
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ISBN
0816630984 (hbk.)
9780816630981 (hc : alk. paper)
0816630984 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816630998 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816630992 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816630998 (pbk.)
0816630992 (pbk.)
9780816630981 (hbk.)
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190
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991014472819702626
