Skin Malaparte CurzioPaperback
Skin Malaparte CurzioPaperback This is the first unexpurgated English edition of Curzio Malaparte's legendary work The Skin. The sometime Fascist and ever-resourceful Curzio Malaparte is working with…
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Skin Malaparte CurzioPaperback
This is the first unexpurgated English edition of Curzio Malaparte's legendary work The Skin. The sometime Fascist and ever-resourceful Curzio Malaparte is working with the Americans as a liaison officer. The book begins in 1943, with Allied forces cementing their grip on the devastated city of Naples.
an American in the noblest sense of the word," who speaks French and cites the classics and holds his nose as the two men tour the squalid streets of a city in ruins where liberation is only another word for desperation. He looks after Colonel Jack Hamilton, "a Christian gentleman . . . Veterans of the disbanded Italian army beg for work.
A rare specimen from the city's famous aquarium is served up at a ceremonial dinner for high Allied officers. Prostitution is rampant. The smell of death is everywhere.Subtle, cynical, evasive, manipulative, unnerving, always astonishing,