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Death of Roberto Calasso, monument of Italian literature

2021-07-29T15:41:58.736Z


DISAPPEARANCE - The Italian writer and publisher, died at the age of 80 following a long illness, announced the publishing house Adelphi, which he had headed for fifty years, on Thursday.


Italian writer and publisher Roberto Calasso "

a literary institution on its own

" - whose scholarly explorations of myth and literature have been translated into more than twenty languages ​​- has died at the age of 80, announced the Adelphi publishing house, this Thursday.

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Son of an antifascist university professor, the writer was born in Florence in 1941. He showed a prodigious literary intelligence very early on, reading the famous

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust at the age of thirteen.

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Polyglot, among his most famous works are:

La Ruine de Kasch

(1983),

Ka

(1996) and

Les Noces de Cadmos et Harmonie

(1988), a revisit of Greek myths.

His favorite themes ranged from ancient gods to painter Giambattista Tiepolo to writers like Franz Kafka or Charles Baudelaire.

He has a significant place in Italian culture as director of the prestigious Milanese publishing house Adelphi Edizioni where he worked for almost sixty years and which he acquired in 2015 to prevent its purchase by the multinational Mondadori.

“Roberto Calasso has been and will continue to be a central figure of reference for the Italian and international literary panorama,”

said rival publishing house Feltrinelli.

The difficulty in putting the editor in a box was summed up by the writer Italo Calvino who explained that

La Ruine du Kasch

dealt with two things: the statesman Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord and all the rest.

The Paris Review, an English-language literary review, called it a “

literary institution in itself

”.

His motley interests included American actor Marlon Brando, 17th century writers and hieroglyphics.

Roberto Calasso has become one of Italy's best-known writers.

His death, after a long illness, coincides with the publication of two new works.

One of them collects his childhood memories during the war in Florence where one of his first memories was that he had to hide with his parents from the fascist police.

Source: lefigaro

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