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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).
Mar 25, 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.
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Curzio Malaparte (all'anagrafe Curt Erich Suckert; Prato, 9 giugno 1898 – Roma, 19 luglio 1957) è stato uno scrittore, giornalista, militare, poeta e saggista italiano, nonché diplomatico, agente segreto, sceneggiatore, inviato speciale e regista cinematografico, una delle figure centrali dell'espressionismo letterario in Italia e del ...
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May 20, 2020 · Via NYRB. Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism. Edmund White on Curzio Malaparte's Oblong Visions of the World. By Edmund White. May 20, 2020.
Jan 15, 2014 · 15 January 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. By John Gray. Image: Roibert Doisnea/Gamma-Rapho/Getty.
As a war correspondent for Corriere della Sera, Malaparte witnessed the atrocities of the Wehrmacht on the eastern front and abandoned fascism. As a liaison officer with the American army in the summer of 1944 Captain Malaparte accompanied the Allied advance up the Italian peninsula from Naples to Florence.
