Curzio Malaparte, trans. from the Italian by David Moore. New York Review Books, $ trade paper (p) ISBN Curzio Malaparte () To win a war – everyone can do that, but not everyone is capable of losing one. I first read La pelle (The Skin, available in English translation) decades ago and was deeply affected by its merciless depiction of the misery.
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Trivia About The Skin. Return to Book Page. A place of vast suffering, men, women and children living in a destroyed city with barely a bite to eat, a drop of water to drink, would do just about anything to get by.
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To view it, click here. To ask other s,in questions about The Skinplease sign up. Burns’ tone is satirical or directly accusatory, while Malaparte’s is bitterly ironic, though Malaparte seems to manifest more sympathy for the Americans than Burns does. What one finds is that throughout the novel it is the group that he showers with the most exuberant praise — i.
However cruel and even sadistic his observations often are, he does show alot of compassion for the people of Naples and their often grotesque behaviour.
Not an easy read but decidedly brilliant and original none the less.
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The Skin is in many ways a cry from the heart and a profound analysis of a world that has lost its bearing. To create an curzil, we must first create the idea of an enemy.
Although I am new to Goodreads, and have posted very little, I have read thousands of books, and once had to sell my book collection in reverse order of preference in order to eat. However, if you are fighting simply to stay alive, i. The Skin is full of memorable lines, and memorable scenes, and is worth reading for those things alone. Amazon Inspire Digital Educational Resources. Every page captured my attention, whether believable or not. I want to expand upon this review, but I am going to begin by saying no other book I can think of even approaches 4 stars let alone 5, in comparison to Curzio Malaparte’s “The Skin”.
Nothing is as it seems, and everything is twisted, ” We’re told that one of the dead is Christ. Our skin, this confounded skin. Malaparte is never dull but that nalaparte mean his style cannot get tiresome at times.
From Bookforum The author buries himself in the bleakness of Naples, transformed by defeat into an open-air market of duplicity, prostitution, and half-interred bodies, all of it overseen malapatre Americans who in their star-spangled naivete never completely understand exactly why they are there.
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The Skin, by Curzio Malaparte. And along with all this, Malaparte effortlessly incorporates allusions to wide swaths of Mmalaparte, American and Greco-Roman literature. He is a lap dog, sucking up to the Americans, to him they are Gods, while he thinks of himself as nothing more than a ‘filthy rotten Italian’.
In quanto prigionieri di guerra la tutela americana cessava allo sbarco.
I don’t know why he was malaarte a fascist, but he was too skkn of a free thinker to be one for long. He may have been a fascist, but others committed far worse, that doesn’t stop him from being an exceptional writer, and ‘The Skin’ is one of the finest works I have read on the subject of World War II, and for that, he gets top marks.
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He was kicked out of the party for his free thinking and for lamb Curzio Malaparte To win a war – everyone can do that, but not everyone is capable of losing one. At the banquet Malaparte attends the served fish in question looks exactly like a girl child. That the hyper-fertile hinterland skn Naples would in the post war era provide almost a third of all agricultural produce in Italy, and that the Italians would provide the world with so many wonderful dishes, only makes it appropriate that some of the more amusing and richly imagined parts would revolve around food.
Not your standard novel at all.
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