The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso

Author:Roberto Calasso
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Chateaubriand saw life in Paris during the years of the Revolution as like the “collection of ruins and tombstones from every century, heaped up in disarray in the cloisters of the Petits-Augustins: except that the wrecks I am talking about are alive and constantly changing.” The repetition is not just of order, but of chaos, of the time when various orders come together—Greek and Gothic, blood and enamel. The Revolution was also the first total spectacle, the Gesamtkunstwerk that emerged from the drawing rooms and from the sewers, and trod the stage of a city. François-Joseph Talma made his theater debut immediately after seeing the Marquis de Favras hanged. Chateaubriand assures us that “the avenues of the Tuileries garden were thronged with giggling women,” and the footsteps of the crowd echoed around the recently deserted convents “like in the abandoned halls of the Alhambra.”

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