by Curzio Malaparte · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475307015
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«La piel» is the novel by Curzio Malaparte, published by FisicalBook in hardcover (284 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Naples during the final months of the Second World War, «La piel» portrays the Allied occupation and its effects on Italian society, plunged into moral and physical degradation. Malaparte combines historical testimony with a grotesque and ruthless gaze to explore war, national identity, and the human condition in the postwar period.
Biblioteca Grandes Éxitos collection, no. 54. Translation by Manuel Bosch Barrett. Original work: «La pelle».
For readers interested in twentieth-century Italian literature and historical accounts of the Second World War.
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.
