The Ruin of Kasch - Brossura

Calasso, Roberto

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0856357138 ISBN 13: 9780856357138

Casa editrice: Carcanet Pr, 1994

Riassunto

In the African kingdom of Kasch the king should be sacrificed when the stars come into a particular alignment. One day a stranger arrives who tells such good yarns the priests forget to watch the skies. The king survives. Sacrifice is abolished, but the kingdom begins to decline. Using this Bedouin legend Roberto Calasso questions the legitimacy of power, tyranny and sacrifice. Talleyrand is the master of ceremonies and guides the reader into real and symbolic places. We are accompanied by Marie-Antoinette, Bentham, Goethe, Baudelaire, Marx, Chateaubriand, three gruesome assassins and assorted other folk. They all contribute to Calasso's vision of history which encompasses both narrative and reflection and reveals how ideas and actual events impinge upon one another.

Su questo libro

L'autore

Roberto Calasso is the author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, as well as a novel and many literary and philosophical essays. He is Director of the publishing house Adelphi Edizioni in Milan.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Carcanet Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0856357138
• ISBN 13: 9780856357138
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320