The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso, Stephen Sartarelli, William Weaver
The Ruin of Kasch
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Roberto Calasso, Stephen Sartarelli, William Weaver
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The Ruin of Kasch

Roberto Calasso, Stephen Sartarelli, William Weaver with William Weaver (Translator), Roberto Calasso (Translator)

385 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In 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,...

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