Walter Murch and Lawrence Weschler: On Curzio Malaparte
Monday 14 January, 2013
7pm, $0
McNally Jackson
52 Prince Street
Film editor Walter Murch chanced upon a story by Curzio Malaparte, an Italian journalist, diplomat and political exile under Mussolini, in a French book about cosmology where it was being retold to illustrate a point about conditions shortly after the creation of the universe. The story was in fact Kaputt, Malaparte's autobiographical novel about the frontlines of World War War II. The Bird That Swallowed its Cage is the first translation of Malaparte’s visceral, richly imagistic writings, beautifully adapted into a body of prose and blank verse poems whose subject and landscape is the trauma of war.
Walter Murch will be joined in conversation by Lawrence Weschler, writer of the foreword to the book and the author, most recently, of Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative.
Walter Murch will be joined in conversation by Lawrence Weschler, writer of the foreword to the book and the author, most recently, of Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative.