Ruin of Kasch (Record no. 231966)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780374252106
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Transcribing agency AL
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
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Edition number 23
Classification number 853.914
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Personal name Roberto Calasso
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9 (RLIN) 186176
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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
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Extent vi,424 p.
Other physical details PB
Dimensions 23x15 cm.
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Price type code XWNY-824259
Price amount ₹1478.00
Currency code ₹
Unit of pricing ₹1478.00
Price effective from 14-11-2024
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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.”
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Topical term or geographic name entry element France--History--Consulate and First Empire
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Topical term or geographic name entry element 1799-1815--Fiction
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Topical term or geographic name entry element France--History--Revolution 1789-1799--Fiction
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Africa--Kings and rulers--Fiction
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Personal name CALASSO (Roberto)
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Personal name DIXON (Richard) Tr
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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