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The Kremlin Ball by Curzio Malaparte (2018, Trade Paperback)
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781681372099
- Book Title
- Kremlin Ball
- Item Length
- 7.9in
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Political, Historical
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 8.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Perhaps only the impeccably perverse imagination of Curzio Malaparte could have conceived of The Kremlin Ball , which might be described as Proust in the corridors of Soviet power. Malaparte began this impertinent portrait of Russia's Marxist aristocracy while he was working on The Skin , his story of American-occupied Naples, and after publishing Kaputt , his depiction of Europe in the hands of the Axis, thinking of this book as a another "picture of the truth" and a third panel in a great composition depicting the decadence of twentieth-century Europe. The book is set at the end of the 1920s, when the great terror may have been nothing more than a twinkle in Stalin's eye, but when the revolution was accompanied by a growing sense of doom. In Malaparte's vision it is from his nightly opera box, rather than the Kremlin, that Stalin surveys Soviet high society, its scandals and amours and intrigues among beauties and bureaucrats, including legendary ballerina Marina Semyonova and Olga Kameneva, sister of the exiled Trotsky, who though a powerful politician is so consumed by dread that everywhere she goes she gives off a smell of rotting meat. This extraordinary court chronicle of Communist life (for which Malaparte also contemplated the title God is a Killer ) was only published posthumously and appears now for the first time ever.
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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681372096
ISBN-13
9781681372099
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240123218
Product Key Features
Book Title
Kremlin Ball
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Political, Historical
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
8.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq4829.A515b3513
Reviews
"Malaparte enlarged the art of fiction in more perverse, inventive, and darkly liberating ways than one would imagine possible, long before novelists like Philip Roth, Robert Coover, and E. L. Doctorow began using their own and other people's histories as Play-Doh." --Gary Indiana "Surreal, disenchanted, on the edge of amoral, Malaparte broke literary ground for writers from Ryszard Kapuscinski to Joseph Heller." --Frederika Randall, The Wall Street Journal "A scrupulous reporter? Probably not. One of the most remarkable writers of the 20twentieth century? Certainly." --Ian Buruma
Copyright Date
2018
Lccn
2017-046485
Dewey Decimal
853.912
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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