Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
160
result(s) for
"Calasso, Roberto."
Sort by:
The art of the publisher
\"An interior look at Roberto Calasso's work as a publisher and his reflections on the art of book publishing In this fascinating memoir, the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book publishing. Recalling the beginnings of Adelphi in the 1960s, he touches on the Italian house's defining qualities, including the considerations involved in designing the successful Biblioteca series and the strategy for publishing a wide range of authors of high literary quality, as well as the historic critical edition of the works of Nietzsche. With his signature erudition and polemical flair, Calasso transcends Adelphi to look at the publishing industry as a whole, from the essential importance of graphics, jackets, and cover flaps to the consequences of universal digitization. And he outlines what he describes as the \"most hazardous and ambitious\" profile of what a publishing house can be: a book comprising many books, a form in which \"all the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain\"--a conception akin to that of other twentieth-century publishers, from Giulio Einaudi to Roger Straus, of whom the book offers brief portraits. An essential book for writers, readers, and editors, The Art of the Publisher is a tribute to the elusive yet profoundly relevant art of making books\"-- Provided by publisher.
Book
The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso review -- a timely insight into the identity of a publishing house
This collection of essays by the Italian author and publisher Roberto Calasso, translated by Richard Dixon, is a paean to publishing. Calasso argues that the art of the publisher lies in nurturing a distinctive literary vision. Publishers like Kurt Wolff, who published authors such as Kafka and Robert Walser, understood that being a publisher was not just about marketing books but creating a \"form\": all the books produced by a publisher are part of a \"self-sufficient composition\".
Newspaper Article
Kick back with Sacks, Bukowski and a curious cat
If you're looking for a literary menu to counteract the frivolity and excess of the festive season, here are four bite-size suggestions for the discerning Boxing Day reader. First up is Gratitude (Picador, 9.99), a collection of four final extraordinary essays from the brilliant neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks who died earlier this year. In \"Mercury\", written as he was turning 80 two years ago, and before he'd received his cancer diagnosis, he celebrates old age, stating that when the time comes he'd like to \"die in harness\". The other three essays see this wish granted, and he faces the end of his life with unrivalled grace and dignity.
Newspaper Article
THE ART OF THE PUBLISHER
What is the role of the publisher today, when writers can publish themselves and make plenty of money doing so? What is the role of the publisher when technology allows readers to be editors and commentators, as well as writers, of a text?
Newspaper Article
A Maverick in Every Salon
Sunil Khilnani reviews the book \"The Ruin of Kasch\" by Roberto Calasso and translated by William Weaver.
Book Review