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 ...
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 ...
The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction
... The Ruin of Kasch In his novel/essay The ruin of Kasch, the Italian writer Roberto Calasso (b. 1941), best known for his renderings of ancient Greek and Indian myths, evokes a phase of European history in which the beginnings of ...
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 ...
Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation
... Kasch ( 1983 ) ] The ruin of Kasch . Roberto Calasso ; translated by William Weaver and Stephen Sartarelli . Manches- ter : Carcanet , 1994 . [ 7 ] , vi , [ 3 ] , 2-385 , [ 5 ] pp .: port . La rovina di Kasch ( Adelphi ) , which ...
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 ...
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 ...
Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation 1929-2016
... Kasch (Adelphi), which predates Calasso's very successful Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia by some five years, takes the form ... Kasch (1983)] The ruin of Kasch. Roberto Calasso; translated by William Weaver and Stephen Sartarelli. Cambridge ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...