Title: Rovina di Kasch
First published: 1994
Description: 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: Fiction, France in fiction, History, Africa in fiction, Kings and rulers, Fiction, historical, France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, fiction, Africa, fiction, Fiction, war & military, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, Western Civilization
Places: France, Africa
Time periods: Revolution, 1789-1799, Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815
LC classification: PQ4863.A3818 R613 1994