by Curzio Malaparte · Círculo de Lectores, 1982, Barcelona. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422614302
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«La piel» is the war novel by Curzio Malaparte, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (404 pages, in Spanish).
In Naples occupied by the Allies during World War II, Malaparte, liaison officer between the Italian army and the Allied forces, portrays the corruption, prostitution and black market that accompany liberation. Malaparte's prose, cynical and stark, reflects on moral decay and the human condition.
The work was originally published in 1949 under the title «La pelle»; this 1982 edition offers the translation by M. Bosch Barrett.
Recommended for readers of historical and war fiction set during World War II.
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.
