Is there a nobler hero in literature than the salmon Curzio Malaparte eulogizes in Kaputt, his semi-fictionalized account of his time as an Italian diplomat during World War II? The last salmon left ...
KAPUTT (407 pp.)—Curzio Malaparte, translated by CesareFoligno—Dutton ($3.75). What the publisher’s jacket fails to tell about Author Malaparte is exactly what a reader should know to get a straight ...
During the summer of 1941, Curzio Malaparte was the only frontline war correspondent in the whole of Russia. The Italian writer’s dispatches for the Corriere della Sera, which traced the failure of ...
On Malaparte: A Biography, by Maurizio Serra, translated by Stephen Twilley. Kaputt is episodic, its style dreamlike, surreal, hallucinatory, grotesque, a vision of a world so askew that even the ...
In a newly translated biography, Maurizio Serra pierces the self-mythologizing of the acclaimed writer Curzio Malaparte, who was a seductive mouthpiece for a violent ideology. By John Ganz John Ganz ...
THOSE CURSED TUSCANS by Curzio Malaparte. 236 pages. Ohio University. $4.95. Novelist-Journalist Curzio Malaparte made it his life’s ambition to be hated by his readers. He succeeded admirably. By the ...
German speakers adopted capot, but respelled it kaputt, and used it only for losers. When English speakers borrowed the word from German, they started using kaput for things that were broken, useless, or destroyed.
KAPUTT translate: broken, busted, finished, on the rocks, exhausted, done in, sketchy, bust, in pieces, on the rocks. Learn more in the Cambridge German-English Dictionary.
Adjective kaputt (strong nominative masculine singular kaputter, comparative kaputter, superlative am kaputtesten) (slightly informal) destroyed, broken, out of order Synonyms: (out of order) defekt, außer Betrieb, außer Funktion, funktionsunfähig, (broken apart) entzwei, zerbrochen, zerrissen Das Auto ist kaputt. ― The car is broken.