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The Ruin of Kasch

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 ...

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Unreasonable Doubt

... the ruins and comments, “The main misfortune, the root of all the evil to come, was the loss of confidence in the ... The Ruin of Kasch to my senior seminar. They were puzzled by his recurring theme of “the king must die.” I explained ...

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History Made, History Imagined

... The Ruin of Kasch , first published in Italian in 1983 , Calasso explores the very idea of history as he interweaves a pseudobiography of Talley- rand with meditations on French literature , nineteenth - century Europe- an politics ...

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The Angel’s Corpse

... The Ruin of Kasch, trans. William Weaver and Stephen Sartarelli (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994), pp. 189–190. 9. Calasso, The Ruin of Kasch, p. 192. Calasso, The Ruin of Kasch, p. 192. Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the ...

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On Histories And Stories

... The Ruin of Kasch, a tale of European legitimacy and selfconsciousness that begins with Talleyrand, and wanders through Marx and Durkheim, the secret services and Nazism, he tells the tale of Kasch between chapters on the Port-Royal and ...

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Pastiche

... The Ruin of Kasch ( 1994 ) First published in Italy in 1983 , Roberto Calasso's The Ruin of Kasch is constructed from fragments , citations , digressions , and anecdotes , loosely pre- sented insights into literature , and sometimes ...

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Nothing As We Need It

... The Ruin of Kasch (in Italian, Casc and Kasch are pronounced exactly the same), R.C. is never entirely there, and haunts the text like a benign version of Maldoror, if such an entity may be envisaged. Never properly introduced — she has ...

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Grounding Morality

... The Ruin of Kasch is another instance of how the stench and dizzying perfumes of human flesh continues to fascinate poets and philosophers alike into metaphysical flight.31 A reading of the streevilaapaparva in the Mahabharata brings ...

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The Unnamable Present

... The Ruin of Kasch, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink, La Folie Baudelaire, Ardor, and The Celestial Hunter (forthcoming from FSG). He has also written Literature and the Gods, The Forty-nine Steps, and The Art of ...

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