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Автор: Calasso, Roberto
Название: The Ruin of Kasch
ISBN: 0141397012 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141397016
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else," wrote Italo Calvino when the book first appeared in 1983. Hailed as one of those rare books that persuade us to see our entire civilization in a new light, its guide is the French statesman Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, who knew the secrets of the ancien regime and all that came after, and was able to adapt the notion of "legitimacy" to the modern age. Roberto Calasso follows him through a vast gallery of scenes set immediately before and after the French Revolution, making occasional forays backward and forward in time, from Vedic India to the porticoes of the Palais-Royal and to the killing fields of Pol Pot, with appearances by Goethe and Marie Antoinette, Napoleon and Marx, Walter Benjamin and Chateaubriand.

At the centre stands the story of the ruin of Kasch, a legendary kingdom based on the ritual killing of the king and emblematic of the ruin of ancient and modern regimes. 'Startling, puzzling, profound . .

. a work charged with intelligence and literary seduction' The New York Times'Unique, idiosyncratic and vaultingly ambitious... essential reading' Independent'A great fat jewel-box of a book, gleaming with obscure treasures' John Banville

Автор: Calasso, Roberto
Название: Tiepolo Pink
ISBN: 0241399424 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241399422
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: "ANOTHER galaxy, another time." This was the opening line for Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, first published in December 1976, six months before the movie release of Star Wars: A New Hope. This novelization was ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster but credited to George Lucas. The book title would later be republished under the title Star Wars: A New Hope. This double-sided tee has the first edition cover art by artist Ralph McQuarrie on the front and the book description on the back. Product Details: 100% Cotton fitted tee, Distressed, softened print, colour: black. Size: Medium, Length: 28 1/2 inches, Chest: 39 1/2 inches. Each purchase helps to fund literacy programs and book donations to communities in need.

Автор: Calasso, Roberto
Название: The Marriage of Cadmus
ISBN: 0241399203 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241399200
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Описание: 'It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the origins of Western self-consciousness' Simon SchamaThe marriage of Cadmus and Harmony was the last time the gods of Olympus feasted alongside mortals. What happened in the distant ages preceding it, and in the generations that followed, form the timeless tales of ancient Greek mythology. In this masterful retelling of the myths we think we know, Roberto Calasso illuminates the deepest questions of our existence.

'The kind of book one comes across only once or twice in one's lifetime' Joseph Brodsky'A perfect work like no other' Gore Vidal

Автор: Calasso, Roberto
Название: Ka
ISBN: 024139922X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241399224
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Описание: Against the long-standing and prevalent belief that Mesopotamian Flood traditions came from very early time in Mesopotamian cultural history, this book argues that the traditions emerged relatively late in Sumerian traditions. Through a systematic examination of the relevant cuneiform sources Y. S. Chen charts the evolution of the Flood traditions.

Автор: Roberto Calasso
Название: La Folie Baudelaire
ISBN: 0241957567 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241957561
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: With Baudelaire`s critical intelligence as his inspiration, the author ranges through his life and work, focusing on two painters - Ingres and Delacroix - about whom Baudelaire wrote acutely, and then turns to Degas and Manet, who followed in the tracks Baudelaire laid down in his great essay The Painter of Modern Life.