Book summaryIn this brilliant work, Roberto Calasso cracks the code of what Baudelaire named the Modern--the increasingly murderous period from the French Revolution to the end of World War II. From Talleyrand's France and the legendary African city of Kasch, to Lenin's Russia and the killing fields of Cambodia, Calasso leads us along an enticing maze of mythology, literature, art, and science to the heart of civilization, where he examines the deepest secrets of history. Media reviews"Its theme, to reduce subtlety to formula, is the shallowness of the modern mind, and because of the very workings of modern culture that Calasso so astutely analyzes, I hesitate to apply to his book the epithet it richly deserves: masterpiece." |
The Ruin of Kaschby Calasso, Roberto
Book description: Belknap Harvard, 1994. Cloth. Fine/Fine. F/F in Mylar. Unmarked. Unclipped. First American Edition, Second Printing.
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