Rovina di Kasch
About this book
Taking as his focus the periods immediately before and after the French Revolution but making occasional sallies backward and forward in time - from Vedic India to the porticoes of the Palais-Royal and to the killing fields of Pol Pot - Calasso recounts, elucidates, and interprets the downfall of what Baudelaire was already calling "the Modern." This downfall came as a sequel to an earlier and opposite collapse: that of the archaic societies which were regulated by the movements of the stars and the rituals of sacrifice.
Subjects
- africa, fiction
- africa in fiction
- fiction
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, war & military
- france, history, revolution, 1789-1799, fiction
- france in fiction
- history
- kings and rulers
- new york times reviewed
- western civilization