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The Ruin of Kasch (Paperback)
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The Ruin of Kasch (Paperback)
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List price R341
Loot Price R279
Discovery Miles 2 790
You Save R62 (18%)
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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 regime 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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