The Tablet of Destinies

The Tablet of Destinies
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 86
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ISBN-10 : 9780374605025
ISBN-13 : 0374605025
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Book Synopsis The Tablet of Destinies by : Roberto Calasso

Download or read book The Tablet of Destinies written by Roberto Calasso and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roberto Calasso, "a literary institution of one" (The Paris Review), tells the story of the eternal life of Utnapishtim, the savior of man, in the eleventh part of his great literary project. A long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans, who were making too much noise and disturbing their sleep, and they decided to send a Flood to destroy them. But Ea, the god of fresh underground water, didn’t agree and advised one of his favorite mortals, Utnapishtim, to build a quadrangular boat to house humans and animals. So Utnapishtim saved living creatures from the Flood. Rather than punish Utnapishtim, Enlil, king of the gods, granted him eternal life and banished him to the island of Dilmun. Thousands of years later, Sindbad the Sailor is shipwrecked on that very same island, and the two begin a conversation about courage, loss, salvation, and sacrifice. What Utnapishtim tells Sindbad is the subject of this book, the eleventh part of Roberto Calasso’s great opus that began in 1983 with The Ruin of Kasch. The Tablet of Destinies, a continuous narrative from beginning to end, delves into our earliest mythologies and records the origin stories of human civilization.


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