A Chutzpah to Spare
Any author willing to title one of their books The Book of All Books has chutzpah to spare. In the case of Roberto Calasso, whose death this year brought to a close a unique chapter in European literary history, the chutzpah in question was cosmic in its breadth. An unclassifiable author of unclassifiable books, he spent his career trying to fulfil what he once referred to as “the only ambition one can legitimately attribute to literature”: unpicking the wiring of “the ancient electrical system that is our mind”.
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