Curzio Malaparte, trans. from the Italian by David Moore. New York Review Books, $15.95 trade paper (360p) ISBN 978-1-59017-622-1
In striving to be darkly humorous, this novel, about the invasion of Italy during World War II, finds the darkness repeatedly and the humor almost never. Capt. Curzio Malaparte, the narrator, is an Italian liaison officer in the Italian Corps of...
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Curzio Malaparte, trans. from the Italian by Jenny McPhee. New York Review Books, $15.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-68137-209-9
Appearing for the first time in English is Malaparte’s strange, aimless, and impassioned skewering of the decadence and hypocrisy of the “Marxist nobility,” the paradoxical haute-proletariat society of 1920s Russia. Readers see Stalin never missing...
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Curzio Malaparte, trans. from the Italian and French by Stephen Twilley. New York Review of Books, $17.95 trade paper (280p) ISBN 978-1-68137-416-1
This endlessly entertaining diary from Italian diplomat, journalist, and novelist Malaparte (1898–1957) of his time in Paris in 1947 and 1948 gives a unique vantage point onto post-WWII France. He records witty dinner conversations with...
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