Kaputt - Curzio Malaparte Panoptic and polyphonic

Panoptic and polyphonic

the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting

a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima

is the most dramatic expression of his dualism and in his simultaneous acceptance and rejection of his heritage heralds the great American-Jewish writers from Henry Roth to Saul Bellow and Philip Roth

filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki laid the groundwork for his legendary movies

Kaputt - Curzio Malaparte Panoptic and polyphonicCurzio 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