The Tablet of Destinies

by	Roberto Calasso, Tim Parks

SKU: 9780141998459 Categories: FOLKLORE ; MYTHOLOGY, Folklore studies, Folklore, myths & legends, Study of myth (mythology) Tags: art things, epicurus the art of happiness, fighting salvation, folklore, Homo Deus, Homo sapiens, Italo Calvino, jorge luis borges, lore of olympus, Marcus Aurelius, monumental myths, mythologica, mythology, mythopedia, ovid metamorphoses, paradise and desertion, Penguin, releasing the gods, saints of salvation, salvation in chaos, sin and surrender, sinful redemption, SOCIAL SCIENCE, spiritual, Stephen Fry, the book of sand, the celestial hunter, the iliad and the odyssey, the last days, the marriage, water and flooding, water flooding, Yuval Harari, Yuval Noah Harari

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An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great FloodA long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood to destroy them. But Ea, the god of fresh underground water, didn’t agree. He advised one of his devotees, Utnapishtim, to build a quadrangular boat to house humans and animals, and saved these living creatures from the Flood.Rather than punish Utnapishtim for his disobedience, Enlil, King of the gods, granted the mortal eternal life and banished him to the island of Dilmun. Thousands of years later, when Sinbad the Sailor is shipwrecked and arrives on that very same island, the two begin a conversation about courage, loss, salvation and sacrifice.

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Weight	0.1 kg
Dimensions	1.6 × 12.8 × 19.4 cm
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Format Old`	Paperback
Imprint	Penguin
Pages	128
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year Published	2023-11-16
by	Roberto Calasso, Tim Parks
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	0141998458
About The Author	Roberto Calasso was born in Florence in 1941. An author and publisher, he began working at Adelphi Edizioni from its founding in 1962 and continued as director for fifty years. The Book of All Books is the tenth part of a series that began with The Ruin of Kasch and includes the international bestseller The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony as well as Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink, La Folie Baudelaire, Ardor, The Celestial Hunter and The Unnamable Present. He died in Milan in 2021.
	A universe of blood, violence, and magic . . . A vigorous rendering of the remote past
Other text	Stimulating . . . Calasso's style calls to mind [Italo] Calvino's dreamlike fabulism . . . and Parks's translation is beautifully rendered and gripping, maintaining Calasso's dreamlike tone . . . Calasso vividly creates a world of gods and humankind that is unfamiliar, poetic, and memorable. This slim volume packs a potent and thought-provoking punch

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