The Ruin of Kasch
$25.14
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2018
Summary
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 regime and all…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141397016 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141397012 |
| Author: | Roberto Calasso, Richard Dixon |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 316g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Roberto Calasso
Roberto Calasso was born in Florence in 1941. An author and publisher, he began working at Adelphi Edizioni from its founding in 1962 and continued as director for fifty years. The Book of All Books is the tenth part of a series that began with The Ruin of Kasch and includes the international bestseller The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony as well as Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink, La Folie Baudelaire, Ardor, The Celestial Hunter and The Unnamable Present. He died in Milan in 2021.
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