{"product_id":"ruin-of-kasch-paperback","title":"Ruin of Kasch - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoberto Calasso\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Ruin of Kasch\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eancien régime\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOffered here in a new translation by Richard Dixon, \u003ci\u003eThe Ruin of Kasch\u003c\/i\u003e is, as John Banville wrote, \"a great fat jewel-box of a book, gleaming with obscure treasures.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoberto Calasso \u003c\/b\u003ewas the publisher of Adelphi Edizioni in Milan and the author of a decades-spanning, multi-volume work which up to now comprises \u003ci\u003eThe Ruin of Kasch, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink, La Folie Baudelaire, Ardor, The Unnamable Present\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Celestial Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e, many of which were published by FSG. FSG will published two more books in Calasso's magnum opus, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of All Books \u003c\/i\u003e(November 2021) and his \u003ci\u003eThe Tablet of the Destinies\u003c\/i\u003e in 2022. Roberto Calasso died on July 28, 2021. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Dixon\u003c\/b\u003e lives and works in Italy. His translations include \u003ci\u003eArdor\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Art of the Publisher\u003c\/i\u003e by Roberto Calasso, and \u003ci\u003eThe Prague Cemetery\u003c\/i\u003e by Umberto Eco. He is one of the translators of FSG's edition of Leopardi's \u003ci\u003eZibaldone\u003c\/i\u003e.\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 02, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47453804757170,"sku":"9780374252106","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/7bc87bf8a66d3b9d24da0c1441677413.webp?v=1778838072","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/ruin-of-kasch-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}