Elena Sbrojavacca, Immagini e iconolatria nell’«opera in corso» di Roberto Calasso

Images and Iconolatry in Roberto Calasso’s «Opera in Corso» · For more than thirty years, Roberto Calasso has been writing his «Opera in Corso», a set of ten books that are difficult to classify under a precise genre and are dedicated to investigating Modernity through a broad variety of fields, from art criticism to philosophy, from the history of economic thought to religious studies. Most of these works present a rich iconographic apparatus that the author himself defines as a ‘reversed ekphrasis’. The essay investigates the interaction between text and images in the «Opera in Corso».