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Chargement... De Wolga ontspringt in Europa (édition 2022)par Curzio Malaparte
Information sur l'oeuvreLa Volga naît en Europe par Curzio Malaparte
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Intriguing collection of despatches from an Italian war correspondent who was on the Eastern Front in the Ukraine in 1941, and then on the Leningrad front in 1942. Very keenly observed vignettes, with a balanced attitude that got the author in trouble with German authorities. The collection only came out first in 1951 because of various mishaps. Only the reference to a German soldier with an Athenian owl is well known; more deserves to be. This is the first Eastern Front book that I have read, and perhaps it is not the best place to start for a military over-view, but Malaparte provides a fascinating look at an aspect of war in the Russian campaign that I suspect has precious little coverage in English. The first half of the book sees Malaparte following the front east, a few miles from the "action", encountering civilians and writing in a very detached, almost dreamlike fashion about his experiences. There are no recurring characters, there is little criticism of the German actions or policies that brought about the campaign (he does write about communism and how it has affected the civilians he meets to quite some extent), and it is an eery, poetic recount of snapshots into the life and death that he encountered on a daily basis. Half way through, and German intervention sees Malaparte "re-deploy" to the fight for Stalingrad, and we see a different situation, but still told in his thoroughly engaging style. I would not recommend this book to people who want maps, orders of battle, and discussions of tactics or grand strategies, but I would suggest that anyone interested in this campaign who wants to delve a little deeper than usual give this a read. It's quite short too, so won't take you long. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Juin 1941: Kurt-Erich Suckert, dit Curzio Malaparte, 43 ans, auteur de Technique du coup d'Etat, veteran de la premiere guerre mondiale, part couvrir, en tant que correspondant du journal Corriere della Serra, l'avancee des troupes italiennes et allemandes sur le front de l'Est. Il penetre en Ukraine dans une vieille Ford V5 8 puis assiste au siege de Leningrad aux cotes des troupes finlandaises.Si de cette experience, le cameleon de la litterature italienne tirera l'un de ses chefs d'oeuvres, Kaputt, il rassemble aussi ses chroniques dans La Volga nait en Europe, peinture de maitre de ce fleau biblique que fut la guerre a l'Est mais aussi ouvrage visionnaire sur l'expansion future du communisme en Europe.Preface en francais par l'auteur, ce livre qui fut la plaque tournante de l'oeuvre de Malaparte, selon son biographe Maurizio Serra, n'avait pas ete republie en France depuis 1948. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Beautifully written, it gives a completely different perspective than your normal history book.
I found it extremely fascinating and enjoyable. Not the same as Kaputt, and not as highly regarded by most, but I like it just as much if not more. ( )