In the canon
Kaputt
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1944
- Originally in
- Originally in Italian
- Pages
- Pages 400
On Lake Ladoga the horses are still there, hundreds of them, caught by the ice as they fled a burning forest and frozen upright mid-plunge, heads and manes rising from the white surface like a carousel carved by the frost. Curzio Malaparte saw it, or says he did, and Kaputt never lets you be sure which.
The lake looked like a vast sheet of white marble on which rested hundreds upon hundreds of horses' heads.
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