Author: Roberto Calasso
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Roberto Calasso explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people, who lived over three thousand years ago in northern India: They left behind no objects, images, or ruins. They created no empires. Even the soma, their likely hallucinogenic ritualistic plant, is unknown. / Hace cerca de tres mil años, en el norte de la India, floreció una civilización de una extraordinaria riqueza. Su fortuna se basó en una serie de textos en torno al Veda (el saber) que, en su mayor parte, son minuciosas prescripciones para ejecutar los ritos, desde el más sencillo hasta el más complejo, el sacrificio, en el que se centra Calasso. ¿Qué es? ¿En qué consistía? ¿Cuál es la diferencia entre la mera violencia y la esencia del sacrificio? ¿Qué valor le damos hoy a ese concepto? Con el magnetismo propio de una poderosa novela, el recorrido de Calasso en El ardor habla, también, de nuestra cultura: de lo que significa el progresivo abandono de las formas del rito, de nuestra dificultad ya casi insuperable para establecer un intercambio con lo invisible, y las distorsiones que ello causa en la historia y la sensibilidad presentes.
Series: Panorama de narrativas
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
BISAC Code: PHI003000
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