Transcript Curzio Malaparte The Skin

Curzio Malaparte
The Skin
Title: The Skin
Author: Curzio Malaparte
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Pages: 344
Publisher: , 0
ISBN: 0910395373
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Size: 8.9 MB
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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 «Negroes like blondes»; 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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Lobstergirl:
This brutal, beautifully written novel about the arrival of American troops in Naples in 1943, and
their two-year occupation, is sad but also deeply, darkly comical. Malaparte, novelizing his real
life war experiences, seemed to be sliding back and forth between an ironical tone, and an
almost innocent sincerity. It's grotesque and at times surreal, but even when it's surreal it gives
the appearance of being real, because that's war - so awful you can't really believe it.
My favorite chapter featured a fancy dinner where the Allied commanders and guests are
served Spam with corn (which horrifies Malaparte) and a giant fish from the Naples aquarium
(fishing in the Gulf of Naples is forbidden because of mines) which, to everyone's astonishment
and horror, looks like a young girl. (Apparently a manatee from the aquarium was served at a
fancy dinner, according to Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy.)
Completely coincidentally, I happened to be reading the pianist Arthur Rubinstein's first memoir
My Young Years as I was reading The Skin. There's a passage in it where Arthur goes to
Naples as a tourist while in Italy for a concert prior to World War I. Malaparte's descriptions of
erupting Mount Vesuvius, and the sex trade in Neapolitan children, were at the forefront of my
mind as Rubinstein described riding a donkey to the top of Vesuvius with a conniving tour guide
who encourages him to dismount, whereupon he sinks knee-deep into the soft volcanic ash and
can't get out. His tour guide demands lira payment before he will throw a rope to Arthur. Then
later as Arthur is taking another tour through the city in a horse driven carriage, his tour guide (a
different one) points to a house and urges, "Look!" Thinking this was the house of someone
famous, Arthur gets out for a closer look, whereupon a mother thrusts her very underage child
at Arthur and forces his hand onto the child's small breasts.
I like to take note of these reading serendipities which often happen to me.
Hanneke: 'The Skin' must have been considered a very scandalous book in 1947 when it was
published. Its tragicomic account of the invasion of Naples in 1943 must have shocked the
people who were only just recovering from the horrors of war. I would imagine that they were
scandalized by a lot of the distressing and often bewildering observations about their recent
past. Malaparte's story is still shocking to read today, so I cannot even imagine what an impact
it must have had just after the end of the war. It is only in recent years that you see books
published that allow for some occasional comic remark in a WW-II setting.
The story of what happens at the invasion of Naples and the following years is extremely tragic
and farcical as well. I feel that Malaparte's account shows us the true reality of the madness of
war. There is an intriguing question throughout the book whether Naples was invaded or
liberated by the American army. Malaparte even implies that he and the people of Naples feel
sorry for the American conquerors and that they themselves have the preferable position of
being conquered. As he puts it in the last sentence of the book: "It is a shameful thing to win a
war."
His observations on the behaviour of his compatriots, as well as the American army and himself
feel very realistic to me. Yet, there are some shocking stories that feel like scenes from a
Jheronimus Bosch painting, as they are so dark and archaic that you have trouble taking in the
real picture of what he is relating. This must be the real face of living through a war.
Curzio writes pure poetry for pages at a time. 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. There are scenes in this book I will never forget. They are darkness visible. And then
again, there are very hilarious scenes as well. Or very tender scenes, like the story of his
friendship with the American army officer Jack or his recounting of the death of his beloved dog
Febo. I feel that this book has a unique voice in WW-II literature.
So, I loved this book. And I also love that sardonic bastard, Curzio Malaparte. I love the title too.
It is so appropriate in that we have only our own skin to live in.
I will read this book again. Highly recommended.
Jack Fingon: even if i'm new to Goodreads, and feature published very little, i've got learn
hundreds of thousands of books, and as soon as needed to promote my booklet assortment in
opposite order of choice with a purpose to eat. I examine that the main sincere approach of
ranking a book, simply because your subsequent meal depends on it. i would like to extend
upon this review, yet i will start through announcing no different booklet i will be able to think
about even ways four stars not to mention 5, compared to Curzio Malaparte's "The Skin". I hate
the observe genius. i'm deeply suspicious of facebook, of Goodreads and of networks of any
sort. But, the surface exposes Hemingway as a fraud. It dwarfs Henry Miller, whom i feel may
effectively recognize this fact. simply Cendrars (a pal) and Céline may carry a candle to this
teller of this Boccaccio-like description of finish of WWII Naples. i'm even reluctant to suggest it,
simply because i want to conceal this e-book from the realm and retain it for myself. Curzio
Malaparte stands alone, and has immortalized Naples. I bow to him as a human being, to his
humanity and genius and terrific humour and love. Bravo.
Jim: Curzio Malaparte may perhaps simply be defined as a literary chameleon. The son of a
German father and an Italian mother, he used to be born in Tuscany below the identify of Kurt
Erick Suckert. He replaced his final identify from Suckert to Malaparte, the other of Buonaparte
-- from a superb position -- the kinfolk identify of Napoleon. He begun as a Fascist who
supported Mussolini, yet due to his snarky attitudes, he served time in different Fascist jails,
until eventually he was once published by means of Mussolini's heir. He used to be then
assigned to hide international conflict II at the japanese Front, from the German side, donning
his unique regimental uniform of the Alpine regiment with its black plumes.The pores and skin
starts off with him, below his personal name, taking part with the yankee invaders. lots of the
publication occurs in Naples, the place the yankee conquerors arrived simply to discover a
ravenous humans being affected by plague. a lot of the booklet feels like nonfiction, yet its writer
does rather a lot posturing that i'm confident not less than 1/2 it truly is fictional, if no longer
more. In an essay on his different famous book, Kaputt, Dan Hofstader calls Malaparte "an
highbrow harlequin and consummate arriviste. [H]e chanced on it challenging to masks his
scorn for these in power: for this reason his oscillation among strident sloganeering and a
stylish, riddling equivocation."Although the occasions defined within the pores and skin are
actually terrible -- the ebook is riddled with blood and useless our bodies -- Malaparte vitiates
his remedy of the warfare by way of continuously being over-conscious of himself impressive a
pose to curry desire with these round him. nonetheless and all, the guy writes well; and
analyzing the book, i used to be consistently to work out what this raconteur may get a hold of
next.
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chóc và xác ng??i, th?t ng??i..., ch?a k? thái ?? luôn khóc lóc g?n v?i kh? dâm c?a nhân v?t k?
chuy?n. Có nhi?u cái nhìn r?t ??nh ki?n, th?m chí là phân bi?t ch?ng t?c và v?i ng??i ??ng tính
quá rõ r?t (nh?ng 1 ph?n có th? là do ng??i d?ch?). Cu?n sách có nhi?u hình ?nh ám ?nh nh?
trong nh?ng b? phim siêu th?c, và ranh gi?i gi?a hi?n th?c v?i ?o giác, hi?n th?c và siêu th?c, ghi
chép và ti?u thuy?t, th?c t?i và t??ng t??ng nhi?u lúc b? xoá nhoà. Tác gi? c?ng là m?t ng??i k?
l? và c?c ?oan, v?i lý t??ng ?i t? ch? ngh?a phát xít sang ch?ng phát xít, cho t?i ?i theo ??ng
minh r?i tham gia c?ng s?n và v? cu?i ??i l?i ch?u ?nh h??ng c?a ch? ngh?a Mao.B?n ti?ng Vi?t
c?a Nguy?n Quang Tr? l?y cái tên khá ng?u h?ng "Th??ng ?? ?ã ch?t trong thành ph?" do Vàng
Son xu?t b?n n?m 1974 và có v? nh? là m?t b?n l??c d?ch, ?? dài có l? ch? b?ng 2/3 so v?i
nguyên tác.
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