Сurtio Malaparte’s polemic with L. Trotsky (the novel “The Ball at the Kremlin”)
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-9-109-117
Abstract
The article is devoted to the polemic aspect of the novel by Italian writer K. Malaparte “The Ball in the Kremlin”. This novel is written as memories of a trip to the USSR in 1929 and is dedicated to the life of the Soviet elite. In the novel Malaparte continues the debate with Leon Trotsky. Trotsky had previously claimed that the corrupt Soviet elite were Stalin’s supporters. On the contrary, Malaparte seeks to show that the corrupt elite are supporters of Trotsky.
About the Author
M. P. Odesskiy
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Mikhail P. Odesskiy
bld. 6, Miusskaya Square, Moscow, 125993, Russia
References
1. Kondratieva, T. (1993), Bolsheviks-Jacobins and the spectre of Thermidor, Ipol, Moscow, Russia.
2. Оdesskiy, M.P. and Fel’dman, D.M. (2012), Poetika vlasti: Tyranoborchestvo. Revol’utsiya. Terror. [Poetics of the power. The tyrannicides. The revolution. The terror], Russian political encyclopedia, Moscow, Russia.
3. Serra, M. (2012), Malaparte: Vite e Leggende, Marsilio Editori,Venezia, Italy.
Review
For citations:
Odesskiy M.P. Сurtio Malaparte’s polemic with L. Trotsky (the novel “The Ball at the Kremlin”). RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2019;(9):109-117. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-9-109-117
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