Ruin of Kasch (Record no. 231966)
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
International Standard Book Number | 9780374252106 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
Transcribing agency | AL |
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
Language code of text/sound track or separate title | English |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Edition number | 23 |
Classification number | 853.914 |
Item number | CALR |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | Roberto Calasso |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
9 (RLIN) | 186176 |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | Ruin of Kasch |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New york |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Farrar Straus and Giroux |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2018 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | vi,424 p. |
Other physical details | PB |
Dimensions | 23x15 cm. |
365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
Price type code | XWNY-824259 |
Price amount | ₹1478.00 |
Currency code | ₹ |
Unit of pricing | ₹1478.00 |
Price effective from | 14-11-2024 |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc. | A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art<br/>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.<br/><br/>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.” |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | France--History--Consulate and First Empire |
9 (RLIN) | 186177 |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | 1799-1815--Fiction |
9 (RLIN) | 186178 |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | France--History--Revolution 1789-1799--Fiction |
9 (RLIN) | 186179 |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Africa--Kings and rulers--Fiction |
9 (RLIN) | 186180 |
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | CALASSO (Roberto) |
9 (RLIN) | 186181 |
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | DIXON (Richard) Tr |
9 (RLIN) | 186182 |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
Koha item type | Book |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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Dewey Decimal Classification | History | St Aloysius Library | St Aloysius Library | 11/20/2024 | amazon.in | 1478.00 | 1 | 853.914 CALR | 077404 | 12/12/2024 | 12/10/2024 | 1478.00 | 11/23/2024 | Book |