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The Ruin of Kasch
Af: Roberto Calasso Engelsk Paperback
The Ruin of Kasch
Af: Roberto Calasso Engelsk Paperback

A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art

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 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 centre 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.

''Startling, puzzling, profound . . . a work charged with intelligence and literary seduction'' The New York Times

''Unique, idiosyncratic and vaultingly ambitious... essential reading'' Independent

''A great fat jewel-box of a book, gleaming with obscure treasures'' John Banville

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A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art

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 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 centre 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.

''Startling, puzzling, profound . . . a work charged with intelligence and literary seduction'' The New York Times

''Unique, idiosyncratic and vaultingly ambitious... essential reading'' Independent

''A great fat jewel-box of a book, gleaming with obscure treasures'' John Banville

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 432
ISBN-13: 9780141397016
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0141397012
Udg. Dato: 25 jan 2018
Dimensioner: B: 197mm H: 173mm D: 26mm
Oplagsdato: 25 jan 2018
Forfatter(e): Roberto Calasso
Produktdetaljer


Forfatter(e) Roberto Calasso


Kategori Biografier, sande fortællinger og nonfiktion


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 432


Udgave


Dimensioner B: 197mm H: 173mm D: 26mm

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