The Bird that Swallowed Its Cage: The Selected Writings of Curzio Malaparte
by Walter Murch (Translator), Lawrence Weschler (Foreword)
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Berkeley CA: Counterpoint, 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages. Walter Murch first came across Curzio Malaparte’s writings in a chance encounter in a French book about cosmology, where one of Malaparte’s stories was retold to illustrate a point about conditions shortly after the creation of the universe. Murch was so taken by the strange, utterly captivating imagery he went to find the book from which the story was taken. The book was Kaputt, Malaparte’s autobiographical novel about the frontlines of World War II. Curzio Malaparte, an Italian born with a German heritage, was a journalist, dramatic, novelist and diplomat. When he wrote a book attacking totalitarianism and Hitler’s reign, Mussolini, in no position to support such a body of work, stripped him of his National Fascist Party membership and sent him to internal exile on the island of Lipari. In 1941, he was sent to cover the Eastern Front as a correspondent for Corriere della Sera, the Milano daily newspaper. His dispatches from the next three years would be largely suppressed by the Italian government, but reverberated among readers as painfully real depictions of a landscape at war. Record # 378316
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- Title
- The Bird that Swallowed Its Cage: The Selected Writings of Curzio Malaparte
- Author
- Walter Murch (Translator), Lawrence Weschler (Foreword)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1619022818
- ISBN 13
- 9781619022812
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- Counterpoint
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley CA
- Date Published
- 2014
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- Literature, essays, , .
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