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The Skin

Curzio Malaparte

Paperback | Pages: 344 pages

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Original Title:	La pelle
ISBN:	0910395373 (ISBN13: 9780910395373)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Curzio Malaparte, Colonel Jack Hamilton, Jimmy Wren, Jeanlouis, General Cork, Mrs. Flat
Setting:	Naples(Italy) Rome(Italy)

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Una terribile peste dilaga a Napoli dal giorno in cui, nell’ottobre del 1943, gli eserciti alleati vi sono entrati come liberatori: una peste che corrompe non il corpo ma l’anima, spingendo le donne a vendersi e gli uomini a calpestare il rispetto di sé. Trasformata in un inferno di abiezione, la città offre visioni di un osceno, straziante orrore: la ragazza che in un tugurio, aprendo «lentamente la rosea e nera tenaglia delle gambe», lascia che i soldati, per un dollaro, verifichino la sua verginità; le «parrucche» bionde o ruggine o tizianesche di cui donne con i capelli ossigenati e la pelle bianca di cipria si coprono il pube, perché; i bambini seminudi e pieni di terrore che megere dal viso incrostato di belletto vendono ai soldati marocchini, dimentiche del fatto che a Napoli i bambini sono la sola cosa sacra. La peste – è questa l’indicibile verità – è nella mano pietosa e fraterna dei liberatori, nella loro incapacità di scorgere le forze misteriose e oscure che a Napoli governano gli uomini e i fatti della vita, nella loro convinzione che un popolo vinto non possa che essere un popolo di colpevoli. Null’altro rimane allora se non la lotta per salvare la pelle: non l’anima, come un tempo, o l’onore, la libertà, la giustizia, ma la «schifosa pelle». E, forse, la pietà: quella che in uno dei più bei capitoli di questo insostenibile e splendido romanzo – uno dei pochi che negli anni successivi alla guerra abbiano lasciato un solco indelebile nel mondo intero – spinge Consuelo Caracciolo a denudarsi per rivestire del suo abito di raso, delle calze, degli scarpini di seta la giovane del Pallonetto morta in un bombardamento, trasformandola in Principessa delle Fate o in una statua della Madonna. Come ha scritto Milan Kundera, nella Pelle Malaparte «con le sue parole fa male a se stesso e agli altri; chi parla è un uomo che soffre. Non uno scrittore impegnato. Un poeta».

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Title	:	The Skin
Author	:	Curzio Malaparte
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 344 pages
Published	:	December 31st 1988 by Marlboro Press (first published 1949)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Italian Literature. Cultural. Italy. War. Historical. Historical Fiction

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I almost forgot about this book when a fellow Goodreads reader Cphe mentioned it today.Thank you!But now I recall it vividly, with all those sometimes shocking details. We all read it, in a Czech translation, when I was in medical school. It is not for the light-hearted and easily shocked. But of course, those things he is describing most likely all happened, and one should not be more shocked by literature than by history.Having said that, we often are. That is what real art does to you- make

Probably this gets the award for the most cynical novel Ive ever read. Malaparte is a difficult chap to warm to. Hes racist, homophobic and was a fascist in the early days of Mussolinis rise to power. Hitler blamed communism on the Jews; Malaparte blames it on homosexuals. What saves him, as an author, is his tremendous wit, his hugely impressive erudition and his ability to write so damn well. The first interesting aspect of this book is that it perhaps shows how fascism in Italy was of a

A slightly different Malaparte from the Malaparte of Kaputt. That Malaparte reveled in the feasts held by Nazi officers and in the thrill of war reportage. This is a Malaparte who has, like his people, been "conquered," and is now a personal lap dog to the American troops in Naples. There's still a great deal of Malaparte weird though, here, with plundered fish and a thriving market for children and a remarkable amount of ink dedicated to black cock and interest therein. For simply chronological

This opening scene of this novel about the American liberation of Naples in WW2 stunned and excited me, but I abandoned it on page 30 after suffering through 5 or so pages of what was perhaps intended to be a comic scene of crafty Neapolitans buying and selling black American soldiers like slaves, and then another 2 or 3 pages intent on describing how physically repulsive the female dwarfs residing on a certain street are. I'm out.

This book is like no other that i have ever read. Malaparte is so weird and so sharp - this book is like a gutteral jagged durge coming out of post war Calabria. It is shocking and illuminating and difficult. read the book, preferablly near his house on Capri.

Although entirely impossible (due to the fact of it being banned in the city), had there been a book signing event held in Naples for 'La Pelle' (The Skin), the pen of Kurt Erich Suckert (Curzio Malapatre) would in all likelihood stay firmly in the breast pocket of his suit. Many would want to see him yes, but not for the signing of any book. No, this queue about a mile long full of angry souls including Neapolitans, members of the Italian Government, The Pope, Blacks, Homosexuals, and Dwarfs,