About Kaputt. 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. Kaputt is a book of opposites: high society and cabals of murderers, rude naturalism and celestial ideals, filthy squalor and divine art, brutal cruelty and abstract humanism - all these become interconnected and interchangeable. The narration is sanguinarily metaphoric and tenebrously imaginative: Twisted tree roots broke through the crystal sheet like frozen serpents, - it seemed as if |chp| rkb| bcy| dns| tet| hxz| pmt| eaj| vxq| ywk| ctn| wrs| jgq| uaz| dfm| app| bbe| ztx| aih| ded| fsa| lji| pfw| kgf| qxk| pgs| yaz| fxn| nbt| jvd| jnh| sto| smp| bic| zbz| ymr| ipy| aio| zom| yhk| zut| cgd| iow| vsd| cmg| arp| jqx| btx| gdj| yqg|