by Curzio Malaparte · Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788418218316
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In 'The Skin', Curzio Malaparte presents a raw and moving account of liberated Naples during World War II. Through a prose that is both sarcastic and poetic, the author explores the moral corruption that permeates both victors and vanquished. The story becomes a metaphor for a devastated world, where survival and human dignity are constantly challenged. This edition, with a new translation from the author's definitive version, offers an overwhelming vision of the human condition and the limits to which the human being can go to save himself.
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.
