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The Bird That Swallowed Its Cage - The Selected Writings of Curzio Malaparte (Paperback)
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The Bird That Swallowed Its Cage - The Selected Writings of Curzio Malaparte (Paperback)
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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.
The film editor, fluent in translating the written word over to the
languages of sight and sound, began slowly translating Malaparte's
writings from World War II. The density and intricacy of his
stories compelled Murch to adapt many of them into prose or blank
verse poems. The result is a book of surprising insight and strange
beauty.
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