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041			_aEnglish
082			_223 _a853.914 _bCALR
100			_aRoberto Calasso _9186176
245			_aRuin of Kasch
260			_aNew york _bFarrar Straus and Giroux _c2018
300			_avi,424 p. _bPB _c23x15 cm.
365			_aXWNY-824259 _b₹1478.00 _c₹ _d₹1478.00 _f14-11-2024
520			_aA 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.”
650			_aFrance--History--Consulate and First Empire _9186177
650			_a1799-1815--Fiction _9186178
650			_aFrance--History--Revolution 1789-1799--Fiction _9186179
650			_aAfrica--Kings and rulers--Fiction _9186180
700			_aCALASSO (Roberto) _9186181
700			_aDIXON (Richard) Tr _9186182
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