Kaputt
By: Curzio Malaparte ; translated from the Italian by Cesare Foligno ; afterword by Dan Hofstadter.
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books; Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
Subjects: Malaparte, Curzio, 1898-1957.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Italian.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe, Eastern.; War correspondents -- Italy -- Biography.
Genres: Personal narratives, Italian.; Biography.
Description: "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 report from the abyss, which became an international bestseller when it was published after the war. Telling of the siege of Leningrad, of glittering dinner parties with Nazi leaders, and of trains disgorging bodies in war-devastated Romania, Malaparte paints a picture of humanity at its most depraved."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Translation from Italian.