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The Ruin of Kasch

Af: Roberto Calasso Engelsk Paperback

The Ruin of Kasch

Af: Roberto Calasso Engelsk Paperback
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A brilliant new translation of a 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 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.”

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A brilliant new translation of a 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 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.”

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 432
ISBN-13: 9780374252106
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0374252106
Kategori: Oldtidens historie
Udg. Dato: 2 jan 2018
Længde: 28mm
Bredde: 229mm
Højde: 153mm
Forlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Oplagsdato: 2 jan 2018
Forfatter(e): Roberto Calasso
Forfatter(e) Roberto Calasso

Kategori Oldtidens historie

ISBN-13 9780374252106

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 432

Udgave

Længde 28mm

Bredde 229mm

Højde 153mm

Udg. Dato 2 jan 2018

Oplagsdato 2 jan 2018

Forlag Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Kategori sammenhænge