The Resource The Kremlin ball, by Curzio Malaparte ; translated and with an introduction by Jenny McPhee
The Kremlin ball, by Curzio Malaparte ; translated and with an introduction by Jenny McPhee
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- 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"--
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- eng
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- eng
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- The Kremlin ball
- Title
- The Kremlin ball
- Statement of responsibility
- by Curzio Malaparte ; translated and with an introduction by Jenny McPhee
- Subject
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- trueUpper class
- Soviet Union -- Social life and customs -- 1917-1970 -- Fiction
- trueStalinism
- trueBallet dancers
- trueCommunism
- trueHypocrisy
- Moscow (Russia) -- Fiction
- trueMoscow, Russia
- truePolitical culture
- truePoliticians
- trueSocial classes
- Social classes -- Soviet Union -- Fiction
- trueSoviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953
- Language
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- eng
- ita
- eng
- 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"--
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- 10651186
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- DLC
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- 1898-1957
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- Malaparte, Curzio
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- McPhee, Jenny
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- Series statement
- New York Review Books classics
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- Social classes
- Moscow (Russia)
- Soviet Union
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- The Kremlin ball, by Curzio Malaparte ; translated and with an introduction by Jenny McPhee
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000060874070
- Extent
- pages cm.
- Isbn
- 9781681372099
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- 2017046485
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- unmediated
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)991367928
- Label
- The Kremlin ball, by Curzio Malaparte ; translated and with an introduction by Jenny McPhee
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000060874070
- Extent
- pages cm.
- Isbn
- 9781681372099
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- 2017046485
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)991367928
Subject
- trueUpper class
- Soviet Union -- Social life and customs -- 1917-1970 -- Fiction
- trueStalinism
- trueBallet dancers
- trueCommunism
- trueHypocrisy
- Moscow (Russia) -- Fiction
- trueMoscow, Russia
- truePolitical culture
- truePoliticians
- trueSocial classes
- Social classes -- Soviet Union -- Fiction
- trueSoviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953
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