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Curzio Malaparte ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈkurtsjo malaˈparte]; 9 June 1898 – 19 July 1957), born Kurt Erich Suckert, was an Italian writer, filmmaker, war correspondent and diplomat. Malaparte is best known outside Italy due to his works Kaputt (1944) and The Skin (1949).
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Genre. Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction. edit data. Born Kurt Erich Suckert, he was an Italian journalist, dramatist, short-story writer, novelist and diplomat. Born in Prato, Tuscany, he was a son of a German father and his Lombard wife, the former Evelina Perelli.
Jun 5, 2024 · Curzio Malaparte (born June 9, 1898, Prato, Italy—died July 19, 1957, Rome) was a journalist, dramatist, short-story writer, and novelist, one of the most powerful, brilliant, and controversial of the Italian writers of the fascist and post-World War II periods.
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 war.
Jan 15, 2014 · Bad to the bone: John Gray on Italian fascist Curzio Malaparte’s lost masterpiece. The Skin, published now in the first ever complete English translation, captures the delirium and cruelty of Europe in the Second World War in surreal and amoral prose.
About Malaparte: A Biography. A sweeping, definitive biography of the polarizing Italian writer whose infamous politics, relationship with Mussolini, and irrepresable knack for invention made him one of the most provocative artists and thinkers of his time.
