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The Kremlin ball : material for a novel
- Title
- The Kremlin ball : material for a novel / Curzio Malaparte ; translated from the Italian by Jenny McPhee.
- Author
- Malaparte, Curzio, 1898-1957
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, [2018]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 18-2117 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- McPhee, Jenny
- Description
- xvi, 223 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "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. 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 the legendary ballerina Marina Semyonova and Olga Kameneva, a sister of the exiled Trotsky, who though a powerful politician is so consumed by dread that everywhere she goes she gives off the smell of rotting meat. This extraordinary court chronicle of Communist life (for which Malaparte also contemplated the title God Is a Killer) was published posthumously and appears now in English for the first time"--
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
- Uniform Title
- Ballo al Kremlino. English
- New York Review Books classics.
- Alternative Title
- Ballo al Kremlino.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- In English, translated from the Italian.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-2117
- ISBN
- 9781681372099
- 1681372096
- LCCN
- 2017046485
- OCLC
- 991367928
- Author
- Malaparte, Curzio, 1898-1957, author.
- Title
- The Kremlin ball : material for a novel / Curzio Malaparte ; translated from the Italian by Jenny McPhee.
- Publisher
- New York : New York Review Books, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New York Review Books classicsNew York Review Books classics.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language
- In English, translated from the Italian.
- Added Author
- McPhee, Jenny, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-2117