{"product_id":"the-bird-that-swallowed-its-cage-the-selected-writings-of-curzio-malaparte-9781619022812","title":"The Bird that Swallowed Its Cage: The Selected Writings of Curzio Malaparte","description":"Walter Murch first came across Curzio Malaparte's writings in a chance encounter in a French book about cosmology, where one of Malaparte's stories was retold to illustrate a point about conditions shortly after the creation of the universe. Murch was so taken by the strange, utterly captivating imagery he went to find the book from which the story was taken. The book was Kaputt, Malaparte's autobiographical novel about the frontlines of World War II. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCurzio Malaparte, an Italian born with a German heritage, was a journalist, dramatic, novelist and diplomat. When he wrote a book attacking totalitarianism and Hitler's reign, Mussolini, in no position to support such a body of work, stripped him of his National Fascist Party membership and sent him to internal exile on the island of Lipari. In 1941, he was sent to cover the Eastern Front as a correspondent for Corriere della Sera, the Milano daily newspaper. His dispatches from the next three years would be largely suppressed by the Italian government, but reverberated among readers as painfully real depictions of a landscape at war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe film editor, fluent in translating the written word over to the languages of sight and sound, began slowly translating Malaparte's writings from World War II. The density and intricacy of his stories compelled Murch to adapt many of them into prose or blank verse poems. The result is a book of surprising insight and strange beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter Murch\u003c\/b\u003e is an Academy Award winning film editor and sound designer. His body of work includes \u003ci\u003eThe Rain People\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Graffiti\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Godfather Parts I-III\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eApocalypse Now\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReturn to Oz\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe English Patient\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCold Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been nominated for nine Academy Awards, and has won three Oscars for his work on \u003ci\u003eApocalypse Now\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe English Patient\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of a book on film editing, \u003ci\u003eIn the Blink of an Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the subject of Michael Ondaatje's \u003ci\u003eThe Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLawrence Weschler is most recently the author of \u003ci\u003eUncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50360738251026,"sku":"9781619022812","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d4d951ac-2b03-4e39-a299-a6579607ad49.jpg?v=1728365233","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-bird-that-swallowed-its-cage-the-selected-writings-of-curzio-malaparte-9781619022812","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}