Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 Kasch (originally published in 1983, and reissued by FSG in a new translation). But while Kasch is an enlightened exploration of modernity The Unnamable Present propels us into the twenty first century. Tourists terrorists secularists fundamentalists hackers transhumanists algorithmicians: these are all tribes that inhabit the unnamable present and act on its nervous system. This is a world that seems to have no living past but was foreshadowed in the period between 1933 and 1945, when everything appeared bent on self - annihilation. The Unnamable Present is a meditation on the obscure and ubiquitous process of transformation happening today in all societies which makes so many previous names either inadequate or misleading or a parody of what they used to mean. Translated with sensitivity by Calasso's longtime translator Richard Dixon The Unnamable Present is a strikingly original and provocative vision of our times from the writer The Paris Review called a literary institution of one.
Title: The Unnamable Present
Author(s): Calasso Roberto
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250251213
Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/21/2020
Category: Classical History / Classical Civilisation