![]() ![]() Frost speaks about the difference between griefs and grievances. ![]() Near the end of the first part, Calasso cites from an introduction Robert Frost wrote for Edwin Arlington Robinson’s 1935 collection of poems, King Jasper. His references are innumerable, and that is why, in selecting one as decisive, nothing is given away. ![]() In fact, to Calasso these two paths are closely related.Ĭalasso is an erudite of nineteenth-century proportions. Crucially, Roberto Calasso takes to task the contradictions between the high culture of analogy, which elsewhere he has connected to the imperative “to interpret infinitely, without a primum and without an end,” with, on one hand, a messianic drive to enact the analogy irrevocably and, on the other hand, a culture that embraces technology and progress-a digital culture that would see the entropy of analogy. This book deals with the twenty-first century, the historical experience it accommodates in terms of terrorism, tourism, and information technology, and how these experiences emerge from its genocidal predecessor. ![]()
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