Curzio Malaparte: The Skin, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Skin
- Solo-Instrument:
- Rachel Kushner
- Translation:
- David Moore
- Publisher:
- New York Review of Books, 11/2013
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781590176221
- Item number:
- 2996513
- Ausgabe:
- Revised edition
- Weight:
- 372 g
- Format:
- 200 x 130 mm
- Thickness:
- 21 mm
- Release date:
- 5.11.2013
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
This is the first unexpurgated English edition of Curzio Malaparte's legendary work The Skin. The book begins in 1943, with Allied forces cementing their grip on the devastated city of Naples. The sometime Fascist and ever-resourceful Curzio Malaparte is working with the Americans as a liaison officer. He looks after Colonel Jack Hamilton, "a Christian gentleman . . . 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. 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, Malaparte is a supreme artist of the unreliable, both the product and the prophet of a world gone rotten to the core.
Biography (Curzio Malaparte)
Curzio Malaparte, 1898 in Prato, nahe Florenz geboren, starb 1957. Er arbeitete als Journalist u. a. bei La Voce, La Stampa und Corriere della Sera.Biography (Rachel Kushner)
Rachel Kushner, geboren 1968 in Eugene, Oregon, studierte Literatur und kreatives Schreiben in Berkeley und an der Columbia University, und sie arbeitete als Redakteurin in diversen Kunst- und Literaturmagazinen. Sie liebt schnelle Motorräder und Skirennen. Sie lebt in Los Angeles, ist verheiratet und hat einen Sohn.
