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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).
Jul 19, 1998 · 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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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.
May 17, 2017 · Born in Tuscany as Kurt Erich Suckert, Curzio Malaparte was a man who stepped through the looking glass of death as massacre, of revolution as coup d’état, of omnipresent dictator as flesh and bone. His great works Kaputt (1944) and The Skin (1949) take us on a delirious journey through pogroms, princesses and pubic wigs.
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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.
Curzio Malaparte. 1898–1957. German-Italian writer, dramatist, and journalist Kurt Erich Suckert published under the pseudonym Curzio Malaparte (which he learned was Napoleon Bonaparte’s original family name), was born in Prato, and raised by foster parents. At age 13, Malaparte entered Ciognini College.
