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Diary of a Foreigner in Paris; New York Review- 1681374161, Malaparte, paperback
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Artist
- Malaparte, Curzio
- ISBN
- 9781681374161
- Book Title
- Diary of a Foreigner in Paris
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Europe / France, Modern / 20th Century, Literary
- Item Weight
- 10.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 5 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681374161
ISBN-13
9781681374161
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038543332
Product Key Features
Book Title
Diary of a Foreigner in Paris
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Europe / France, Modern / 20th Century, Literary
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-041956
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Curzio Malaparte moved back and forth politically and professionally like a ping pong ball--a Tuscan from Prato, his philology, philosophy and friendships make him a perfect exemplar of the adage: 'Italy never ended a war on the same side on which she started.' To say the least, despite prison, wars and disputatious behavior, he was a survivor par excellence. He wrote fascinating novels, including Kaputt , and my personal favorite, The Skin . His Diary of a Foreigner in Paris is a self-conscious record of a man-against-the-world's desperate denouement. Malaparte is a Man Apart--a writer like no other." --Barry Gifford
Dewey Decimal
944/.361082
Synopsis
In 1947 Curzio Malaparte returned to Paris for the first time in fourteen years. In between, he had been condemned by Mussolini to five years in exile and, on release, repeatedly imprisoned. In his intervals of freedom, he had been dispatched as a journalist to the Eastern Front, and though many of his reports from the bloodlands of Poland and Ukraine were censored, his experiences there became the basis for his unclassifiable postwar masterpiece and international bestseller, Kaputt . Now, returning to the one country that had always treated him well, the one country he had always loved, he was something of a star, albeit one that shines with a dusky and disturbing light. The journal he kept while in Paris records a range of meetings with remarkable people-Jean Cocteau and a dourly unwelcoming Albert Camus among them-and is full of Malaparte's characteristically barbed reflections on the temper of the time. It is a perfect model of ambiguous reserve as well as humorous self-exposure. There is, for example, Malaparte's curious custom of sitting out at night and barking along with the neighborhood dogs-dogs, after all, were his only friends when in exile. The French find it puzzling, to say the least; when it comes to Switzerland, it is grounds for prosecution!, Experience postwar Europe through the diary of a fascinating and witty twentieth-century writer and artist. Recording his travels in France and Switzerland, Curzio Malaparte encounters famous figures such as Cocteau and Camus and captures the fraught, restless spirit of Paris after the trauma of war. In 1947 Curzio Malaparte returned to Paris for the first time in fourteen years. In between, he had been condemned by Mussolini to five years in exile and, on release, repeatedly imprisoned. In his intervals of freedom, he had been dispatched as a journalist to the Eastern Front, and though many of his reports from the bloodlands of Poland and Ukraine were censored, his experiences there became the basis for his unclassifiable postwar masterpiece and international bestseller, Kaputt . Now, returning to the one country that had always treated him well, the one country he had always loved, he was something of a star, albeit one that shines with a dusky and disturbing light. The journal he kept while in Paris records a range of meetings with remarkable people--Jean Cocteau and a dourly unwelcoming Albert Camus among them--and is full of Malaparte's characteristically barbed reflections on the temper of the time. It is a perfect model of ambiguous reserve as well as humorous self-exposure. There is, for example, Malaparte's curious custom of sitting out at night and barking along with the neighborhood dogs--dogs, after all, were his only friends when in exile. The French find it puzzling, to say the least; when it comes to Switzerland, it is grounds for prosecution
LC Classification Number
DC715.M3313 2020
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