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The Ruin of Kasch

✍ Scribed by Roberto Calasso


Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
2018
Tongue
en-US
Weight
304 KB
Edition
First edition
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art
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The 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 rΓ©gime 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...


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