The Kremlin Ball (New York Review Books Classics)

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The Kremlin Ball (New York Review Books Classics)

Communism in late 30s Moscow, as reported by the inimitable Malaparte--now in English for the first time.

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.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781681372099
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2018-04-10
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781681372099

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781681372099
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2018-04-10
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781681372099