FOR JOSEPH
The world is like the impression left by the telling of a story.
Ideae enim nihil aliud sunt, quam narrationes sive historiae naturae mentales.
Born in Florence, Roberto Calasso lives in Milan, where he is publisher of Adelphi. He is the author of The Ruin of Kasch and The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, which was the winner of France’s Prix Veillon and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger.