Ka - Buch im Überblick

Ka: Inhalt, Einordnung und bibliografische Details

Mit Ka liegt ein Buch von Roberto Calasso vor, das der Kategorie Sachbuch zugeordnet wird und sich für alle eignet, die gezielt nach Literatur mit diesem Schwerpunkt suchen. Der Zusatz Stories of the Mind and Gods of India schärft das Profil von Ka und unterstützt die thematische Einordnung bereits auf den ersten Blick. Aus der Buchbeschreibung zu Ka ergibt sich ein klares Bild der thematischen Schwerpunkte: Roberto Calasso narrates the birth of one of the world's great cultures: the formation of the mind of India. He doesn't explain or describe this mental world - he regenerates it through its epic cyclical stories and customs, until we no longer need to define it for ourselves because we have come to know what it is. So: Who is Ka? And who is the immense eagle asking the question, filling the sky, elephant and giant turtle dwarfed in his claws? How can he be the child of a woman? Who are the tiny folk he eats? The first impact of Ka is one of tremendous strangeness, bewilderment, disorientation. How can a Western tradition which demands to identify a beginning and an end understand one that sees no beginning and no end, but only an eternal tangle? Slowly, though, the strange becomes familiar, as new and ever more fantastic stories are spun out, gods emerge, bizarre sacrifices are performed. Rejecting our cravings to have the culture systematized and predigested for us, Calasso invites us to understand India on Indian terms, through Indian images, through India itself. As Ka unfolds, the worlds of the Devas, of Siva, Brahma and Visnu, of the wars of the Mahabharata, are splendidly revealed, until finally, with the advent of the Buddha, we are amazed at our own sense of recognition, for these stories seem to confirm, or to articulate for the first time, our own deepest perceptions about our human condition

Einordnung nach Autor, Thema und Ausgabe

Das hinterlegte Publikationsdatum 09.1999 unterstützt dabei, Ka zeitlich korrekt zu klassifizieren. Ka spricht besonders Nutzer an, die sich für Bücher rund um Sachbuch interessieren. Dass Ka in Deutsch erschienen ist, erleichtert die gezielte Auswahl für sprachspezifische Recherchen. Ka ist besonders für Leserinnen und Leser interessant, die sich gezielt mit Veröffentlichungen von Roberto Calasso beschäftigen möchten.

Was behandelt Ka?

Im thematischen Kontext von Sachbuch setzt Ka laut Beschreibung auf folgende Schwerpunkte: Roberto Calasso narrates the birth of one of the world's great cultures: the formation of the mind of India. He doesn't explain or describe this mental world - he regenerates it through its epic cyclical stories and customs, until we no longer need to define it for ourselves because we have come to know what it is. So: Who is Ka? And who is the immense eagle asking the question, filling the sky, elephant and giant turtle dwarfed in his claws? How can he be the child of a woman? Who are the tiny folk he eats? The first impact of Ka is one of tremendous strangeness, bewilderment, disorientation. How can a Western tradition which demands to identify a beginning and an end understand one that sees no beginning and no end, but only an eternal tangle? Slowly, though, the strange becomes familiar, as new and ever more fantastic stories are spun out, gods emerge, bizarre sacrifices are performed. Rejecting our cravings to have the culture systematized and predigested for us, Calasso invites us to understand India on Indian terms, through Indian images, through India itself. As Ka unfolds, the worlds of the Devas, of Siva, Brahma and Visnu, of the wars of the Mahabharata, are splendidly revealed, until finally, with the advent of the Buddha, we are amazed at our own sense of recognition, for these stories seem to confirm, or to articulate for the first time, our own deepest perceptions about our human condition Für die thematische Suche und semantische Zuordnung sind insbesondere diese Tags relevant: Fiction, Greek Mythology, Romance italiano, Indic Mythology

ISBN, Revision und weitere Referenzdaten

Auch physisch ist die Ausgabe klar beschrieben: Format hard, Gewicht 1.2 pounds und Abmessungen 8.1 x 5.2 x 1.6 inches. Für die eindeutige Identifikation der Ausgabe sind sowohl die ISBN-10 3518410679 als auch die ISBN-13 9783518410677 hinterlegt. Im Open-Library-Kontext ist das Werk über OL2039403W sowie die Editionszuordnungen OL9051365M referenzierbar.

Die zentralen Metadaten zu Ka

1. Ergänzender Titelzusatz: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India
2. Internationale Standardbuchnummer (ISBN-13): 9783518410677
3. Schlagwörter: Fiction, Greek Mythology, Romance italiano, Indic Mythology
4. Gewicht: 1.2 pounds
5. Externe Editionsreferenzen: OL9051365M
6. ISBN-10: 3518410679
7. Primäre Kategorie: Sachbuch
8. Titel: Ka
9. Ausgabeform: hard
10. Abmessungen: 8.1 x 5.2 x 1.6 inches
11. Verfügbare Sprache dieser Ausgabe: Deutsch
12. Erscheinungsdatum: 09.1999
13. Externe Work-Referenz: OL2039403W
14. Kurzbeschreibung: Roberto Calasso narrates the birth of one of the world's great cultures: the formation of the mind of India. He doesn't explain or describe this mental world - he regenerates it through its epic cyclical stories and customs, until we no longer need to define it for ourselves because we have come to know what it is. So: Who is Ka? And who is the immense eagle asking the question, filling the sky, elephant and giant turtle dwarfed in his claws? How can he be the child of a woman? Who are the tiny folk he eats? The first impact of Ka is one of tremendous strangeness, bewilderment, disorientation. How can a Western tradition which demands to identify a beginning and an end understand one that sees no beginning and no end, but only an eternal tangle? Slowly, though, the strange becomes familiar, as new and ever more fantastic stories are spun out, gods emerge, bizarre sacrifices are performed. Rejecting our cravings to have the culture systematized and predigested for us, Calasso invites us to understand India on Indian terms, through Indian images, through India itself. As Ka unfolds, the worlds of the Devas, of Siva, Brahma and Visnu, of the wars of the Mahabharata, are splendidly revealed, until finally, with the advent of the Buddha, we are amazed at our own sense of recognition, for these stories seem to confirm, or to articulate for the first time, our own deepest perceptions about our human condition
15. Publiziert bei: Suhrkamp
16. Autor beziehungsweise Autoren: Roberto Calasso

Auffindbarkeit und bibliografische Präzision

Die Verbindung aus Ka, Roberto Calasso, Sachbuch und Fiction, Greek Mythology, Romance italiano, Indic Mythology schafft eine solide Grundlage für eine präzise thematische Suche. Zusätzliche Präzision entsteht durch Identifikatoren wie 3518410679, 9783518410677 und OL2039403W, die die Ausgabe in verschiedenen Katalog- und Suchkontexten eindeutig referenzierbar machen.

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