KaputtCurzio 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. Kaputt is an insider's dispatch from the world of the enemy that is as hypnotically fascinating as it is disturbing. |
Contents
The History of a Manuscript | 1 |
THE HORSES | 5 |
Du côté de Guermantes | 7 |
Horse Kingdom | 32 |
Ice Horses | 49 |
THE MICE | 61 |
God Shave the King | 63 |
Forbidden Cities | 87 |
THE BIRDS | 247 |
The Glass Eye | 249 |
A Basket of Oysters | 268 |
Of Their Sweet Deaths | 279 |
The Soroca Girls | 301 |
THE REINDEER | 315 |
Naked Men | 317 |
Siegfried and the Salmon | 343 |
The Rats of Jassy | 105 |
Cricket in Poland | 146 |
THE DOGS | 183 |
The Winter Night | 185 |
Red Dogs | 214 |
Summer Night | 231 |
THE FLIES | 363 |
Golf Handicaps | 365 |
Blood | 408 |
AFTERWORD | 431 |
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