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Title: The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso, William Weaver, Stephen Sartarelli ISBN: 0-674-78026-4 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: October, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointment
Comment: After reading the wonderful book, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, I was expecting great things from The Ruin of Kasch. Unfortunately this disjointed, disorganized, collection of odds and ends never seems to pull together into any cohesive whole. The tid-bits about the life of Talleyrand were not substantial enough to maintain a narrative thread throughout the entire book. There wasn't enough cohesion around the Talleyrand sections to begin to say this was really commentary on this fascinating personality. Read The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony twice rather than read this book once.
Rating: 3
Summary: Fragmata and Obscurata
Comment: Very odd book. Full of nostalgia for the aristocracy of France, not unlike Nietzsche's nostalgia for the aristocracy of Rome and Greece. It is highly disjointed, indeed ofter incoherent relying upon dense references to obscure figures in the 18th Century. There is a thread of Rimbaud running through the text There are brilliant moments and insights, but no follow through or exposition. It is fragmata, obscurata, anecdotes, quotes from belles letres and diaries. Its central theme is musings on the loss of aristocratic legitimacy and the rise of the democratic mob. Worth reading if the French revolutionary period interests you and you are familiar with European culture of that period.
Rating: 3
Summary: calasso's book is a brilliant mess
Comment: Since I much admired Calasso's first book, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, I looked forward to reading this one. Unfortunately, it is a mess. Although full of interesting bits, the pieces fail to add up to a satisfying whole. The author is never able to define what he means by "modern" except to provide ever more anecdotes about Talleyrand. These are intriguing but unsatisfying. Calasso seems nostalgic for an old world when myths, customs, magic were taken seriously. But it is hard to be sure if even this nostalgia is the point of the book. Still one can't help but admire the wide ranging knowledge of this author and his sometimes eloquent writing
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Title: Literature and the Gods by Roberto Calasso ISBN: 0375411380 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 13 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso ISBN: 0679733485 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 08 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Ka : Stories of the Mind and Gods of India by Roberto Calasso, Roberto Calasso ISBN: 0679775471 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 26 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Forty-nine Steps by Roberto Calasso, John Shepley, Alejo Carpentier, John Shepley ISBN: 0816630984 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Austerlitz by Winfried Georg Sebald, Anthea Bell ISBN: 0375756566 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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