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The Ruin of Kasch Calasso, Roberto

Description: Title: The Ruin of Kasch Author: Calasso, Roberto Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Binding: Paperback Pages: 432 Dimensions: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.10d Product Weight: 0.9 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780374252106 A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects--"the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else," wrote Italo Calvino when the book first appeared in 1983. Hailed as one of those rare books that persuade us to see our entire civilization in a new light, its guide is the French statesman Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, who knew the secrets of the ancien régime and all that came after, and was able to adapt the notion of "legitimacy" to the modern age. Roberto Calasso follows him through a vast gallery of scenes set immediately before and after the French Revolution, making occasional forays backward and forward in time, from Vedic India to the porticoes of the Palais-Royal and to the killing fields of Pol Pot, with appearances by Goethe and Marie Antoinette, Napoleon and Marx, Walter Benjamin and Chateaubriand. At the center stands the story of the ruin of Kasch, a legendary kingdom based on the ritual killing of the king and emblematic of the ruin of ancient and modern regimes. Offered here in a new translation by Richard Dixon, The Ruin of Kasch is, as John Banville wrote, "a great fat jewel-box of a book, gleaming with obscure treasures."   Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer

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Book Title: Ruin of Kasch

Item Length: 8.2in

Item Height: 1.1in

Item Width: 5.9in

Author: Roberto Calasso

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Topic: Civilization, War & Military, Europe / France, Revolutionary, Historical

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Publication Year: 2018

Genre: History, Fiction

Item Weight: 15.2 Oz

Number of Pages: 432 Pages

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