Volume 52, Number 19 · December 1, 2005

The Horrors of War

By Tim Parks
Kaputt
by Curzio Malaparte, translated from the Italian by Cesare Foligno, with an afterword by Dan Hofstadter

New York Review Books,437 pp., $16.95 (paper)

For a book surrounded by controversy, Curzio Malaparte's Kaputt opens in a most serene manner:



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