by Curzio Malaparte · Plaza & Janes, Colección Perennes, 1977, Barcelona. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401100123
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«La piel» is the novel by Italian writer Curzio Malaparte, published by Plaza & Janés, Colección Perennes, in hardcover (448 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Naples during and after World War II, the novel shows the moral degradation of a city occupied by the Allies, where hunger and misery drive its inhabitants to extreme situations. Malaparte composes grotesque scenes to denounce hypocrisy and cynicism, and questions the boundary between victors and vanquished.
Work originally published in 1949 as «La pelle»; this 1977 Spanish edition includes the translation by M. Bosch Barrett.
For readers of historical fiction and twentieth-century Italian literature who want a critical look at the postwar period.
Curzio Malaparte was an Italian writer, filmmaker, war correspondent and diplomat. Malaparte is best known outside Italy for his works Kaputt (1944) and The Skin (1949). The former is a semi-fictionalised account of the Eastern Front during the Second World War and the latter is an account focusing on morality in the immediate post-war period of Naples.
