The bird that swallowed its cage : selected works of Curzio Malaparte / adapted and translated by Walter Murch ; with an afterword by Lawrence Weschler.
Murderer (adapted from Mamma Marcia) -- Six winds (from Maledetti toscani) -- Two sisters (from Fughe in prigione) -- Today we fly (from Fughe in prigione) -- El traidor (excerpted from Diario di uno straniero a Parigi) -- The visit of the angel (from Fughe in prigione) -- The little hand (excerpted from Maledetti toscani) -- Partisans, 1944 (adapted from Mamma Marcia) -- Woman by the edge of the sea (from Fughe in prigione) -- Red woman (from Sodoma e Gomorra) -- Empty sky (excerpted from Io, in Russia e Cina) -- The gun gone mad (from Kaputt) -- Sleepwalking (adapted from Mamma Marcia) -- Xian of eight rivers (excerpted from Io, in Russia e Cina).
Summary:
Curzio Malaparte, an Italian born with a German heritage, was a journalist, dramatic, novelist and diplomat. In 1941, he was sent to cover the Eastern Front as a correspondent for the Milano daily newspaper, and his dispatches reverberated among readers as painfully real depictions of a landscape at war. Murch first came across Curzio Malaparte's writings in a chance encounter in a French book about cosmology, and was so taken by the strange, utterly captivating imagery he went to find the book from which the story was taken, leading to this body of work never before available to English readers.
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