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    The Ruin of Kasch
    The Ruin of Kasch
    The Ruin of Kasch
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    The Ruin of Kasch

    By Roberto Calasso

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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.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJan 2, 2018
    ISBN9780374712839
    The Ruin of Kasch
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    Roberto Calasso

    Roberto Calasso (Florencia 1941- Milán 2021) fue presidente y director literario de Adelphi, una de las editoriales de mayor prestigio internacional. En Anagrama publicó La ruina de Kasch, Las bodas de Cadmo y Harmonía, Ka, K., El rosa Tiepolo, La Folie Baudelaire, El ardor,La actualidad innombrable y El Cazador Celeste, que forman parte de un vasto y ambicioso work in progress. Estos libros, que pueden leerse de modo independiente y que a la vez conforman una unidad coherente de pensamiento y visión, constituyen una de las obras literarias más importantes de nuestro tiempo. Ratifican, así, el temprano juicio de Leonardo Sciascia: «Sus obras están destinadas a no morir. Calasso es uno de los pocos grandes escritores que tenemos.» Asimismo ha publicado, también en Anagrama, los valiosos ensayos Los cuarenta y nueve escalones, La literatura y los dioses, Cien cartas a un desconocido, La marca del editor y Cómo ordenar una biblioteca.

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