The Oldest Human Substrata

The result is a strange running work that Calasso referred to simply as his “opera”: an untitled sequence of 11 books published over four decades, and dedicated to turning over the oldest substrata of human myth and history in search of how and why we are wired the way we are. The penultimate entry in the opera (the last is due out in English next year), The Book of All Books continues the search with what might be billed as a retelling of the Hebrew Old Testament, treated as only Calasso could treat it.