· The latest addition to our Reviews section is a piece by Peter Biello on The Skin by Curzio Malaparte, translated by David Moore and out last year from New York Review Books.. If you’re looking for some post-WWII-themed, summer reading with disturbing imagery that would blow Jane Yolen and her time-traveling YA hit out of the shark-infested waters (don’t ask about the sharks), this book. Near the outset of The Skin, Curzio Malaparte’s novel about Naples following its occupation by Allied forces in October , the author drily notes that it is harder to lose a war than to win it: “While everyone is good at winning a war, not all are capable of losing one.”. Three hundred and forty-three pages later, in the last line of the book, the author’s alter ego, Colonel Curzio Malaparte, liaison officer for the Allied . Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying report from the abyss, which became an international bestseller when it was published after the www.doorway.rus:
Buy The skin by Curzio Malaparte online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 3 editions - starting at $ Shop now. MALAPARTE, Curzio. The Skin. London and Sidney: Alvin Redman, (). Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket. $ First edition in English of "one of the greatest and still-searing literary products of WWII," Italian novelist Malaparte's striking vision of the Allies' liberation of war-torn Naples, a brilliant "fiction. The reliably unorthodox Curzio Malaparte's own service as an Italian liaison officer with the Allies during the invasion of Italy was the basis for this searing and surreal novel, in which the contradictions inherent in any attempt to simultaneously conquer and liberate a people beset the triumphant but ingenuous American forces as they make.
Said to be a work of nonfiction, but like many of Malaparte's accounts of his own life* arguably a blend of fantasy and reality, The Skin is a remarkable book in which the author explores the aftermath of World War II on the citizens of Naples. Malaparte himself appears as our guide through such chaos: he is referred to by name numerous times by other figures in the story, and he often describes his own actions, as though he were a sort of anti-hero of the narrative. During World War II Malaparte worked as a correspondent, for much of the time on the eastern front, and this experience provided the basis for his two most famous books, Kaputt (; available as. Near the outset of The Skin, Curzio Malaparte’s novel about Naples following its occupation by Allied forces in October , the author drily notes that it is harder to lose a war than to win it: “While everyone is good at winning a war, not all are capable of losing one.”. Three hundred and forty-three pages later, in the last line of the book, the author’s alter ego, Colonel Curzio Malaparte, liaison officer for the Allied forces, mutters, “It is a shameful thing to win a war.”.
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