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Kaputt (New York Review Books Classics) by: with an introduction by Dan Hofstadter Curzio Malaparte List Price: £8.99 City Travel Guides Price: £6.99 You Save: £2.00 (22%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 940.54217092 EAN: 9781590171479 ISBN: 1590171470 Label: New York Review Books Manufacturer: New York Review Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 448 Publication Date: March 01, 2007 Publisher: New York Review Books Studio: New York Review Books Sales Rank: 248208 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - "The Dead Were Fleeing from the Train"This book was published in 1944 in Italy and in English in 1946. It covers events the author claimed to have observed in 1941-43, presented in seemingly random order, while he served as a war correspondent for a major Italian newspaper, accompanying the German army on the Eastern Front. Malaparte (1898-1957) was an early member of the Fascist Party in Italy. A man of letters without political influence, he was expelled in the early 1930s and spent some years in internal exile. Between 1938 and 1943, he was arrested several times and imprisoned briefly in Rome. Still, his party connections, earlier diplomatic experience and status as a writer of note enabled him to work from 1941 on the Eastern Front for the Corriere della Sera. ... Read More: Rating: - The everyday miseries of warCurzio Malaparte is the pseudonym of Kurt Erich Suckert, born in South Tirol (part of Italy). As a reporter he travelled extensively through German-occupied Europe during the Second World War and did not shun the front lines. But he also had access to the "Big Names" of fascism, such as Himmler, Franck (the governor of Poland) and the son-in-law of Mussolini. But above all Malaparte remained an outsider with deviant opinions that landed him in Italian prisons a few times. In a rather unemotional style (for most of the book) he describes the everyday horrors of war: sleeping in a house with a horse carcass rotting next to it, the upper ten of a city playing bridge while at the same time the Jews of their city are massacred. But ... Read More: Rating:  - A surreal WW2 classic on a continent in moral chaosThis book is a remarkably neglected classic of modern European literature. Malaparte, an Italian diplomat seconded to the German army, explores the moral breakdown of WW2 Europe. His surreal account carries us on his travels, from the Warsaw Ghetto, through the Balkans, and to the frozen forests of Finland. A fascinating, but challenging, book that makes us ask if we would have had the courage to resist the barbarism that tore through Europe. |
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