Kaputt (novel)
Book cover for Kaputt (1946 English language edition) | |
Author | Curzio Malaparte |
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Translator | Cesare Foligno |
Language | Italian |
Publisher | Editore Casella |
Publication date | 1944 |
Publication place | Italy |
Published in English | 1946 |
Pages | 645 |
Kaputt is a 1944 autobiographical novel by the Italian writer Curzio Malaparte.
Plot
The book was inspired by Malaparte's experiences as a war correspondent at the Eastern Front of World War II. It presents itself as Malaparte's personal witness account of intense violence and cruelty, but the content is largely fictional.[1]
Reception
The book was an international success. Already at the publication, several European critics received the book's narrator as a fictionalised author persona, and the book as an attempt from Malaparte to position himself after Italy's defeat and his own past as a fascist sympathiser.[1] When the English translation was published in 1946, Kirkus Reviews received it as a true account and called it "a subtly brilliant piece of writing" where Malaparte is "whipping the sensibilities to a sharp awareness of the degradation of Europe, of the utter collapse of morality, integrity, and so on".[2]
Translations
The book was translated into Lithuanian by Tomas Venclova [3]
References
- ^ a b Hope, William (2000). Curzio Malaparte: The Narrative Contract Strained. Market Harborough: Troubador. pp. 82–86. ISBN 1-899293-221.
- ^ "Kaputt". Kirkus Reviews. 1 November 1946. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
- ^ "Kaput - Curcio Molaparte; Tomas Venclova; | Tyto Alba". tytoalba.lt (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 2024-01-10.
Further reading
- Hope, William (1999). "The narrative contract strained: The problems of narratorial neutrality in Malaparte's Kaputt". The Italianist. 19 (1): 178–192. doi:10.1179/ita.1999.19.1.178.
- Walker, Robert G. (2010). "Malaparte and Literary Strangeness: A Critical Preface to Kaputt". The Sewanee Review. 18 (2): 270–282. doi:10.1353/sew.0.0252. JSTOR 40801276.
External links
- New York Review of Books
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journalism
- Coup d'État: The Technique of Revolution (1931)
- The Volga Rises in Europe (1943)
- Those Cursed Tuscans (1956)
- Woman Like Me (1940)
- Kaputt (1944)
- The Skin (1949)
- The Kremlin Ball (1971)
- "900", Cahiers d'Italie et d'Europe (1926–1929 magazine)
- The Forbidden Christ (1951 film)
- Gruber's Journey (2008 drama film)
- Malaparte: A Biography (2011 biography)
- Casa Malaparte
- Premio Malaparte
- The Skin (1981 film)
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