About the Author

Roberto Calasso is the author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, The Ruin of Kasch, Ka and Literature and the Gods. He is the publisher of Adelphi Edizioni and lives in Milan.

John Shepley is a freelance writer and translator. His translation of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Roman Nights and Other Stories won the first Italo Calvino Translation Award in 1987.