PLAYBOY Magazine December 2012 [Nude Marilyn]
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Endicott, New York, United States
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About This Item
Playboy, Beverly Hills, CA, 2012. 10.75" X 8" in illustrated paper covers - Marilyn Monroe on the cover. Minor shelf wear, but clean, tight, unmarked: NEAR FINE condition. 202pp.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.
Reviews
On Apr 23 2014, a reader said:
KA, by the Italian writer Roberto Calasso, is a breathtaking and revelatory book. Calasso had hit the boards running in 1993 with THE MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY, a reimagining of the classic Greek myths; in KA, subtitled “Stories of the Mind and Gods of India,” he dives into the Indic myths and restores to them not only their brutal and erotic power but their mysterious, fluxive, almost vegetative qualities: the stories grow from each other as naturally as a flower from a stalk from a seed, and as startlingly, bafflingly, as the lotus stalk blooms from Vishnu’s belly. The collection of retold myths is usually a rote, schoolbookish genre: plots and characters but stale prose and no manna, no power, no emanations. Calasso is a full-flower European intellectual, and I’ll match any odds you offer that he is familiar with Heinrich Zimmer and Mircea Eliade and all the great twentieth-century mythographers, but that’s all behind the prose; he is also, here, an artist working solely, with an expressive and sensuous style, to render the tale for the tale’s sake: myth as a way of knowledge. He uses the tropical welter of the Vedic myths to envelop us; and when he arrives at the open field of the stories about the Buddha and Ananda he demonstrates how Buddhism grew out of Hinduism with a clarity we feel in our bones. Tim Parks has translated beautifully, not least in the playful cadences that close the book, that lull us back into story and wheel us back around to the book’s beginning. Calasso at the end evokes the hymn to Ka from the Rig Veda, with its teasing, lyric questions: “He who brought forth the great and lucid waters: Who shall we adore with our oblations?” KA—the Sanskrit word for “Who?”—is the book’s question; these stories, from the great and lucid waters of Indic myth, are its myriads of answer.
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Details
- Bookseller
- THE BOOK VAULT (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- W845
- Title
- PLAYBOY Magazine December 2012 [Nude Marilyn]
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Playboy, Beverly Hills, CA
- Date Published
- 2012
- Bookseller catalogs
- periodicals; erotica;
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