MALAPARTE- LEGEND OF LENIN Swarm 1938 wrapper

MALAPARTE C.

LENIN'S LEGEND

Relying mainly and primarily on first-hand material, that is, from Bolshevik sources drawing on the accounts of Lenin's closest circle, Malaparte has undertaken the task of unmasking his character. In an audacious biographical projection, starting from the dawn of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov's activities in the Russian workers' milieu, the Italian writer gives us a picture of a bold, pedantic but extraordinarily ambitious doctrinaire organically unable to tolerate practical activity, an active deed over which he always willingly places observation."[from the publisher's note]

Warsaw 1938, Towarzystwo Wydawnicze RÓJ, pp. 285, format 16.5x24.5cm

Was it the eastern hordes of Genghis Khan who set out in 1918 to conquer the West, or was it Europe with its revolutionary theories and fanaticism that rattled the gates of the imperial empire? These are the seemingly paradoxical questions posed to himself and readers by Curzio Malaparte, a world-renowned writer and journalist whose books continue to amaze with his brilliant pen and astonishing insight.
In The Legend of Lenin, the author draws his own portrait of the leader of the Revolution. Merciless, but deviating from stereotypes. Unusual, but how plausible.

Table of Contents:
Prologue
Brother of the hanged
Robinson among the Stigmata
Maximilian Lenin
Toward the Swan
Monsieur Lénine - the average Frenchman
Jacob at the foot of the ladder
Wig in the woods
"My head is spinning..."
One more victim of common sense

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