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Lädt ... Malaparte. Morte come me (2016. Auflage)von Rita Monaldi (Autore), Francesco Sorti (Autore)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Un romanzo a mio modo di vedere favoloso, diverso dalla serie storica dedicata ad Atto Melani (che personalmente trovo pure molto spettacolare)! Partendo da un fatto di cronaca vero, gli autori tessono una trama assolutamente verosimile che ha come protagonista Curzio Malaparte. Dal libro si sprigionano il fascino del personaggio, la sua intelligenza e la sua sagace ironia. Eccezionale anche la descrizione dell'isola di Capri, coi suoi personaggi originali e le sue straordinarie feste mondane, riempite di bella gente anestetizzata, insensibile a un incombente futuro funesto. La storia si dipana all'ombra della Seconda guerra mondiale ormai alle porte e dell'onnipresente presenza del fascismo! A mio avviso è un libro da non perdere, spiritoso e audace! Tarapuncila!!! Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
SPECIAL ILLUSTRATED EDITION. The Island of Capri, August 1939. Italy in the grip of Fascism, the Second World War looming. At a dazzling party under the stars mingling aristocrats, Nazi officers and American millionaires, the writer, ladies' man and Fascist loose cannon, Curzio Malaparte (1898-1957) - at that time internationally renowned - is accosted by Mussolini's secret police: someone has accused him of murder, the killing of a young English girl, a poet, who had mysteriously fallen from a cliff a few years before - a fall that actually did happen. Malaparte decides to go on the run: helped by a few trusted friends (a spendthrift prince, a Camorra man, an eccentric painter and his inseparable dog Febo) he finds himself embroiled in an impossible investigation. Who's trying to frame him? Could it be that SS officer shadowed by his bloodthirsty Doberman? And what has the terrible (and true) secret hidden in Adolf Hitler's past to do with the plot against him? Struggling to stay a step ahead of the nightmare that's bearing down on him, the writer is forced to live by his wits, depending on a charming girl with unsuspected talents and the providential assistance of an American journalist, the perfect gentleman, destined to head US military intelligence in Europe.The setting: Capri's landscapes and the house Malaparte is building atop one of the island's most spectacular cliffs. All the while, champagne corks pop, the band plays on, and Europe's high society drifts helplessly to its doom. But Malaparte won't play that game: no passive victim, he's determined to save his skin, like his mind, still painfully scarred by a war hero's wounds from over two decades before. Yet that's by no means all there is to it. Readers will soon find themselves up against far more than a mere literary fiction: the tale Malaparte is telling covers his entire past life; more than just a novel, he's responding to the challenge of a lifetime. Only at the very end shall we know if he has lived up to it, or failed. A huge success among readers and critics, DEATH LIKE ME won the Noir Mediterraneo prize for crime novels and was shortlisted at both the Acqui Storia historical fiction competition and the Premio Strega, the most important Italian literary award. The wife and husband team, Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti, have published ten books to date, international best sellers translated into 26 languages and appearing in 60 countries, including the five novels featuring Atto Melani (Pistoia 1626 - Paris 1714): Imprimatur, Secretum, Veritas, Mysterium and Dissimulatio.They also edited Secrets of the Conclaves, a secret report by Atto Melani which they unearthed in a Parisian library.The couple live between Vienna and Rome with their children. For many years, the notorious political and publishing intrigues surrounding the publication of Imprimatur kept Monaldi & Sorti's books out of Italy. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Het hele verhaal blijkt een allerlaatste roman te zijn, verteld door Malaparte op zijn doodsbed aan de Dood, om zijn zielenheil te vrijwaren. Maar hij blijft op de eerste plaats een schrijver. "Uno scrittore non è mai se stesso: è sempre e solo i suio libri, quelle vecchie pagine zeppe di segnacci neri. Una forza immensa e oscura lo chiama non già a diventare ammirato e famoso, che è la cosa meno importante, ma a mettere se stesso li dentro, in quelle pagine, a montare a cavalcioni del suo libro e a volare, in sella alla sua strana creatura, verso l'Inferno o il Paradiso". (p. 430)
Prachtig verhaal met een mooie verstrengeling van verleden en heden, van spanning en bespiegeling. Maar het belangrijkste hoofdpersonage was voor mij het eiland Capri. De beschrijvingen van de natuur in al zijn omvang vond ik gewoon geweldig. Echt een herbeleving van mijn bezoek aan deze parel in de baai van Napels. Hopelijk laat een Nederlandse vertaling niet lang meer op zich wachten want dit boek verdient een breder publiek. ( )