The Ruin of Kasch by R Calasso

The Ruin of Kasch by R Calasso

Centered around the legendary ruin of Kasch, an African kingdom whose annihilation symbolizes the destruction of ancient and modern worlds, a unique blend of literature and ideas focuses on the periods immediately before and after the French Revolution. UP.

Roberto Calasso, publisher of Adelphi in Milan, is the author of many books, among them The Ruin of Kasch, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Ka, K., and Tiepolo Pink, all parts of a work in progress of which La Folie Baudelaire is the sixth panel.

Alastair McEwen has translated almost ninety books of fiction and nonfiction and seven feature film scripts, as well as radio play adaptations, operative librettos, and many hundreds of articles for various magazines and newspapers. He has also translated some of Italy's finest writers (Calasso, Eco, Tabucchi, and many others). He lives and works in Milan.

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ISBN 13	9780674780262
ISBN 10	0674780264
Title	The Ruin of Kasch
Author	R Calasso
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Harvard University Press
Year published	1994-01-01
Number of pages	352
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