Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying account of a world sliding toward the abyss, which became an internatio[...]
"It is a shameful thing to win a war." The reliably unorthodox Curzio Malaparte's own service as an Italian liaison officer with the Allies during the invasion of Italy was the basis for this searing and surreal novel, in which the contradictions inherent in any attempt to simultaneously conquer and[...]
Curzio Malapartes roman Kaput udkom i Italien i 1943/44 som den første skildring af krigen pÃ¥ Ãstfronten. Malaparte kunne som aristokrat og barndomsven af flere ledende italienske fascister færdes frit over hele Europa og følge fronten fra Rumænien til Murmansk. Ingen, der har lÃ�[...]
Kaputt är italienaren Curzio Malapartes surrealistiska krigsskildring från 1944. Som journalist i italiensk uniform följde Malaparte det ryska fälttåget österut 1941. Han skålade med tyska officerare i Warszawa, bevittnade pogromer i Rumänien och berättade osannolika fiskarhistorier om blan[...]