A literary exploration of a landmark moment in evolution- when humans became the hunter rather than the prey.
Roberto Calasso is the author of an ongoing series of books which began with The Ruin of Kasch and includes the international bestseller The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink, La Folie Baudelaire, Ardor, The Celestial Hunter and The Unnamable Present. He lives in Milan.
Beguiling, captivating, vital ... Informed by myth, this damning
exploration of man's detachment from the animal world is ninth in a
staggeringly learned series
*Guardian*
The Celestial Hunter is an "initiation through the book",
speculative but capable of changing how you see things
*Spectator*
A spellbinding modern magus . . . he writes like a poet, not a
professor, in glinting, enigmatic nuggets of narrative. At a moment
when atavistic kinds of peril, awe and terror seem close at hand,
it feels no great stretch to share Calasso's core belief that "the
gods always return"
*Financial Times*
Calasso is especially good at describing the characters of myth and
legend with a novelist's omniscient authority ... leaves you
feeling not out of your depth, but smarter and better read
*New York Times*
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