Ka

To read Ka is to experience a giddy invasion of stories - brilliant enigmatic troubling outrageous erotic beautiful The New York Times. 'Who?' - or 'ka' - is the question that runs through Roberto Calasso's retelling of the stories of the minds and gods of India the primordial question that continues to haunt human existence. From the Rigveda to the Upanishads the Mahabharata to the life of Buddha this book delves into the corpus of classical Sanskrit literature to re-imagine the ancient Indian myths and how they resonate through space and time.. 'The very best book about Hindu mythology that anyone has ever written' Wendy Doniger. 'Dazzling complex utterly original ... Ka is his masterpiece' Sunday Times|If you want a dazzling complex erotic and utterly original European novel of ideas Calasso is your man and Ka his masterpiece|To read Ka is to experience a giddy invasion of stories - brilliant enigmatic troubling outrageous erotic beautiful ... these stories are superbly narrated|Passage[s] of such ecstatic insight and cross-cultural synthesis-simply of such beauty|The very best book about Hindu mythology that anyone has ever written ... A magnificent reading of Hindu texts. Its power arises in part through strong vivid writing and in part through stunning unexpected metaphors|Magnificent ... A moving exhilarating extraordinary book ... An astonishing synthesis of myths and legends philosophical inquiry and speculative narrative|A scintillatingly challenging book ... Its opening sentences are as startling as any in all of literature|All is spectacle and delight and tiny mirrors reflecting human foibles are set into the weave turning this retelling into the stuff of literature ... Calasso's erudition and his capacity for invention appear to be limitless|'To read Ka is to experience a giddy invasion of stories - brilliant enigmatic troubling outrageous erotic beautiful' The New York Times'Who?' - or 'ka' - is the question that runs through Roberto Calasso's retelling of the stories of the minds and gods of India; the primordial question that continues to haunt human existence. From the Rigveda to the Upanishads the Mahabharata to the life of Buddha this book delves into the corpus of classical Sanskrit literature to re-imagine the ancient Indian myths and how they resonate through space and time.'The very best book about Hindu mythology that anyone has ever written' Wendy Doniger'Dazzling complex utterly original ... Ka is his masterpiece' Sunday Times