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Roberto Calasso, writer and mind behind the Italian publishing house Adelphi, has died yesterday after a long illness.
His two latest books just came out today in Italy.

RIP.

>> No.18743066

I read the literature and the gods a long time ago. I was filtered pretty badly.

F

>> No.18743079

>>18742933
literally who

>> No.18743081

>>18742933
STICKY WHEN

>> No.18743088

>>18742933
literally who

>> No.18743155
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>>18742933
Adelphi always publishes nice stuff but seriously it's too expensive. They basically don't have a graphic department, they just use the same monochromatic cover forever (with some exceptions). I know, it's part of the imagery they created, it's intentional. But still

Come the fuck on. I have the original 1998 edition, it costed 10k lire. Now it's double that. For a public domain, 89 (!!!) pages.
Affanculo Robbè, cordialmente

>> No.18743171

Fuck. RIP.
Just read a book by his wife, too.

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18744006

rest in peace to a true giant

>> No.18744203

F to a great man of letters

>> No.18744438

the last true patrician of literature. gone forever. the torch has been handed, /lit. will you take it?

>> No.18744529

>>18742933
thanks god he croaked before winning the nobel. it would have been peak clown world. literally UFO literature but for "intellectuals".

>> No.18744530

>>18742933
F

His book on Kafka’s was amazing. I’ll have to read more of him

>> No.18745093

F

>> No.18745239

>>18742933
F, was reading one of his books to my mother yesterday

>> No.18745366

>>18744530
>>18745093
>>18745239
samefag + retarded

>> No.18745373

>>18745366
>Can't count

>> No.18745385

>>18745373
Proxies

>> No.18746403

>UN RICORDO. A un convegno di qualche anno fa con le figure più rappresentative dell'editoria italiana stava parlando un giovane rampante e perfetto esponente dell'"innominabile attuale". Parlava della merce-libro, delle vendite finalizzate al popular increase di progetti di marketing stantii, delle statistiche di vendita, del libro come gadget di progetti multimediali et similia quando un uomo anziano, con il bastone, si alzò incerto dalla sua sedia e interruppe il discorso per dire: "MA VA A FARE IN CULO!".
>L'uomo anziano, claudicante, uscì dalla sala.
>Si chiamava Roberto Calasso.
Goodnight sweet prince.

>> No.18746671

>>18746403
mamma mia. based.

>> No.18747387

>>18742933
STICKY MOD OR ELSE

>> No.18747396

so did lit ever had any sticky ever? seems not

>> No.18747405

>>18742933
Respect for a hero.

>> No.18747424

One of the last great men. RIP. Will be reading Thomas Browne in his honor tonight.

>> No.18747477

>>18742933
RIP MAESTRO

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>>18747396
Terry Pratchett got one.
I remember.

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18747726

Oh no.


And what a crime we’re not getting a sticky. The fuck is the matter with failchan moderators?

>> No.18747788

>>18746403
> A MEMORY. At a conference a few years ago with the many leading figures of Italian publishing, a young upstart and representative of the trendy young generation was speaking. He was talking about the merchandise-book, about sales aimed at the popular increase of marketing projects, about sales statistics, about the book as a gadget for multimedia projects and the like when an elderly man, with a cane, got up from his chair and interrupted the conversation. speech to shout: "GO SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS YOU FUCK!".
> The old man, limping, left the room.
> That mans name? Roberto Calasso.
And everybody clapped.

>> No.18748752

>>18746403
source?

>> No.18748844

>>18747396
Bloom got one.

>> No.18750065

>>18748844
I don’t recall

>> No.18750072

>>18750065
Good to know, faggot.

>> No.18750080

>>18750072
Bumping an unsticked eulogy thread. No need to bring your phobias into it

>> No.18750109

>>18742933
I'm a filthy argie with dual citizenship and I'm studying italian, recommend me so good italian novels. I'm into gothic and weird fiction, I'd appreciate anything related to those genres (i.e. The Twenty Days of Turin).

>> No.18750131
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>>18748752
4chan /lit/, apparently

>> No.18750134

>>18742933
rip sweet prince, a true patrician.

>> No.18750135

>>18750080
GOOD TO KNOW, STICK-BUNDLE

>> No.18750163

>>18742933
where to start with him? marriage of cadmus?

>> No.18750195

>>18750109
Hmmm...not sure something like 20DoT exists, at least not that I remember right now.

https://www.fantascienza.com/catalogo/volumi/NILF107789/fantasmi-italiani/
This is a small anthology of Italian "ghost stories" but they all predate it by at least 50 years, and it's not like they have much in common with it.

Best I can do is suggest some Calvino (metaliterature period: If on a winter night a traveler, Castle of crossed destinies, Invisible Cities. Sci-Fi period: Cosmicomics, T zero. Someone suggested me Palomar, didn't read it) and Primo Levi (from what I read, in English they didn't publish his two sci-fi short stories volumes (Storie Naturali, Vizio di Forma) as intended, instead cutting them up and spreading them across at least 2 different collections, not even sure if they published them all. anyway, "The Sixth Day and Other Tales", "A Tranquil Star".)

Ma se parli italiano è un altro discorso

>> No.18750212

>>18750109
ah let me add that Giorgio de Maria actually collaborated with Calvino at the time of Cantacronache, and Levi and Calvino were friends/colleagues, so there's that.

>> No.18750314

>>18750109
Tommaso Landolfi

>> No.18750409

>>18742933
F
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU_jRbV4H6c

>> No.18750507

>>18742933
F for an absolute giant. Sticky when?

>> No.18750544

>>18748752
Private facebook group dedicated to Roberto Calasso.

>> No.18752202

bump

>> No.18752293

F

>> No.18752938

>>18750544
lmao

>> No.18753053

>>18742933
F

>> No.18753567

>>18742933
>no sticky
its a nigger and mutt clown world

>> No.18753850

>>18753567
you are fitting in yet

>> No.18753901

>>18747396
Eric Carole did.

>> No.18755527

typical dumb anglo jannies

>> No.18755786

>1 thread
>50 replies
>31 posters
>y no sticky??

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>>18750195
>>18750314
Thanks for the recommendations. I was buying and studying with random second hand novels. I think reading genre fiction will be more motivating and fun.