A giddy invasion of stories--brilliant, enigmatic, troubling, outrageous, erotic, beautiful.' --The New York Times Book Review'So brilliant that you can't look at it anymore--and you can't look at anything else. . . . No one will read...

A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. The ninth part of Roberto Calasso’s masterwork, The Unnamable Present, is closely connected with themes of the first book, The Ruin of ...