Curzio Malaparte

Curzio Malaparte (June 9, 1898 - July 19, 1957), born as Kurt Erich Suckert, was an Italian journalist, dramatist, short-story writer, novelist and diplomat. His chosen surname, which he used since 1925, means "He of the bad place" and is a pun on the word "Buonaparte". ImageMetadata File history File links Malaparte. ... June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining. ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This page is about negotiations; for the board game, see Diplomacy (game). ... A family name, or surname, is that part of a persons name that indicates to what family he or she belongs. ... Of Corsican origin, the Bonaparte (originally Buonaparte) family is the family of Napoleon I, who was elected as first consul of France on November 10, 1799 with the help of his brother, Lucien Bonaparte, president of the Council of Five Hundred at Saint-Cloud. ...

Biography

Born in Prato, from the Tuscany area of Italy, to a Lombard mother and a German father, he was educated at Collegio Cicognini and at the La Sapienza University of Rome. In 1918 he started his career as a journalist. Prato is a city in Tuscany, Italy, the capital of the Province of Prato. ... A flowered corn field in Tuscany. ... Lombardy (Italian: Lombardia) is a region in northern Italy between the Alps and the Po river valley. ... University of Rome La Sapienza (Università della Sapienza) is the most ancient university of Rome, Italy. ... Nickname: The Eternal City Motto: SPQR: Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 8th century BC Mayor Walter Veltroni Area    - City 1,285 km²  (496. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ...

Malaparte fought in World War I, earning a captaincy in the Fifth Alpine Regiment and several decorations for valor, and in 1922 took part in Benito Mussolini's March on Rome. In 1924, he founded the Roman periodical La Conquista dello stato ("The Conquest of the State", a title which would inspire Ramiro Ledesma Ramos' La Conquista del Estado). As a member of the Partito Nazionale Fascista, he founded several periodicals and contributed essays and articles to others, as well as writing numerous books, starting from the early 1920s, and directing two metropolitan newspapers. Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul von Hindenburg... This article concerns the rank and title of Captain. ... The Alpini are a highly decorated elite infantry corps of the Italian Army. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (July 29, 1883 – April 28, 1945) was the Prime-Minister and dictator of Italy from 1922 until his overthrow in 1943. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ramiro Ledesma Ramos (May 23, 1905, Alfaraz de Sayago, Zamora—October 29, 1936, Aravaca, Madrid) was a Spanish national syndicalist-fascist politician, essayist, and journalist. ... La Conquista del Estado letterhead La Conquista del Estado (Conquest of the State) was a publication in Spain. ... The National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista; PNF) was an Italian party, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of Fascism (previously represented by groups known as Fasci). ... The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ...

In 1926 he founded with Massimo Bontempelli (1878-1960) the literary quarterly 900. Later he became a co-editor of Fiera Letteraria (1928-31), and an editor of La Stampa in Turin. His confessional war novel, La rivolta dei santi (1921), criticized corrupt Rome as the real enemy. In Tecnica del colpo di Stato (1931) Malaparte attacked both Adolf Hitler and Mussolini. This led to Malaparte being stripped of his National Fascist Party membership and sent to internal exile from 1933 to 1938 on the island of Lipari. 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Turin (Italian: ; Piedmontese: Turin) is a major industrial city and business, cultural, and religious center in northwest Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the west bank of the Po River. ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Hitler redirects here. ... The National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista; PNF) was an Italian party, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of Fascism (previously represented by groups known as Fasci). ... EXILE is a 6-member Japanese pop music band. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Lipari Castle above the town of Lipari. ...

He was freed on the personal intervention of Mussolini's son-in-law and heir apparent Galeazzo Ciano. Mussolini's regime arrested Malaparte again in 1938, 1939, 1941, and 1943 and imprisoned him in Rome's infamous jail - Regina Coeli. Galeazzo Ciano. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ...

His remarkable knowledge of Europe and its leaders is based upon his experience as a correspondent and in the Italian diplomatic service. In 1941 he was sent to cover the war in Russia as a correspondent for Corriere della Sera. The articles he sent back from the Ukrainian Fronts, many of which were suppressed, were collected in 1943 and brought out under the title Il Volga nasce in Europa ("The Volga Rises in Europe"). Also, this experience provided the basis for his two most famous books, Kaputt (1944) and The Skin (1949). This page is about negotiations; for the board game, see Diplomacy (game). ... This article is about the year. ... The Eastern Front of World War II was the theatre of war covering the conflict in central and eastern Europe from June 22, 1941 to May 9, 1945. ... Corriere della Sera (Evening Mail) is the most important Italian daily newspapers (first in sales [1]), printed in Milan. ... Front was a major military subdivision of the Soviet Army. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... For other meanings of the word Volga see Volga (disambiguation) Волга Length 3,690 km Elevation of the source 225 m Average discharge  ? m³/s Area watershed 1. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ...

As per an editorial note, in Kaputt, his novelistic account of the war, surreptitiously written, presents the conflict from the point of view of those doomed to lose it. Malaparte's account is marked by lyrical observations, as when he encounters a detachment of soldiers fleeing a Ukrainian battlefield: Wehrmacht troops of the Heer (military land forces) marching at a military parade in honour of the 50th birthday of Adolf Hitler, on April 20th, 1939. ...

When Germans become afraid, when that mysterious German fear begins to creep into their bones, they always arouse a special horror and pity. Their appearance is miserable, their cruelty sad, their courage silent and hopeless.

In The Skin, as per D. Moore editorial note, Malaparte extends the great fresco of European society he began in Kaputt. There the scene was Eastern Europe, here it is Italy during the years from 1943 to 1945; instead of Germans, the invaders are the American armed forces. In all the literature that derives from the Second World War, there is no other book that so brilliantly or so woundingly present triumphant American innocence against the background of the European experience of destruction and moral collapse. 1945 (MCMVL) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States armed forces and has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ...

The book was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Venetiis, M. D. LXIIII. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum (List of Prohibited Books) is a list of publications which the Catholic Church censored for being a danger to itself and the faith of its members. ...

From November 1943 to March 1946 he was attached to the American High Command in Italy as an Italian Liaison Officer. Articles by Curzio Malaparte have appeared in many literary periodicals of note in France, the United Kingdom, Italy and the United States. 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

After the war, Malaparte's political sympathies veered to the left, and he became member of the Italian Communist Party. In 1947 Malaparte settled in Paris and wrote dramas without much success. His play Du Côté de chez Proust was based on the life of Marcel Proust, and Das Kapital was a portrait of Karl Marx. Cristo Proibito ("Forbidden Christ") was Malaparte's moderately successful film - which he wrote, directed, and scored in 1950. It won the "City of Berlin" special prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 1951. In the story a war veteran returns to his village to revenge the death of his brother, shot by the Germans. It was released in the United States in 1953 as Strange Deception and voted among the five best foreign films by National Board Of Review. In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... The Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI) or Italian Communist Party emerged as Partito Comunista dItalia or Communist Party of Italy from a secession by the Leninist comunisti puri tendency from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) during that bodys congress on 21 January 1921 at Livorno. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Proust redirects here. ... Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818, Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883, London) was an immensely influential philosopher, political economist, and socialist revolutionary. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the Berlinale, is one of the most important film festivals in Europe and the world. ... The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures was founded in 1909 in New York City, just 13 years after the birth of cinema, to protest New York City Mayor George McClennans revocation of moving-picture exhibition licenses on Christmas Eve 1908. ...

He also produced the variety show Sexophone and planned to cross the United States on bicycle. Just before his death, Malaparte completed the treatment of another film, Il Compagno P. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Malaparte became interested in the Maoist version of Communism, but his journey to China was cut short by illness, and he was flown back to Rome. Io in Russia e in Cina, his journal of the events, was published posthumously in 1958. Malaparte's final book, Maledetti toscani, his attack on bourgeois culture, appeared in 1956. He died of cancer. 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought (Chinese: 毛泽东思想, pinyin: Máo Zédōng Sīxiǎng), is a variant of Marxism-Leninism derived from the teachings of the Chinese communist Mao Zedong. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bourgeois at the end of the thirteenth century. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these cells to invade other tissues, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis. ...

Main writings

• Tecnica del colpo di Stato (1931)
• The Volga Rises in Europe (1943) ISBN 1-84158-096-1
• Kaputt (1944) trans. Kaputt ISBN 0-8101-1341-4
• La Pelle (1949) trans44. The Skin ISBN 0-8101-1572-7
• Du Côté de chez Proust (1951)
• Maledetti toscani (1956) - translated as Those Cursed Tuscans, Ohio University Press, 1964

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Directed

• The Forbidden Christ (1950)

See also

• Casa Malaparte

Casa Malaparte (also Villa Malaparte) is a house on Punta Massullo, on the eastern side of the Isle of Capri, Italy, at 40° 32′ 44″ N 14° 15′ 37″ E. The house was designed around 1937 by Italian Rationalist architect Adalberto Libera, although many consider owner...

References

• Malaparte: A House Like Me by Michael McDonough, 1999, ISBN 0-609-60378-7)
• The Appeal of Fascism: A Study of Intellectuals and Fascism 1919-1945 by Alastair Hamilton (London, 1971, ISBN 0-218-51426-3)
• Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte, E. P. Dutton and Comp., Inc., New York, 1946 (biographical note on the book cover)
• Curzio Malaparte The Skin, Nortwestern University Press, Evanston, 1997 (editorial note on the back cover)

1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Old Farts by the Sometimes-United Nations. ... The Appeal of Fascism: A Study of Intellectuals and Fascism 1919-1945 is a book by Alastair Hamilton, examining poets, philosophers, artists, and writers with fascist sympathies and convictions in Italy, Germany, France, and England. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...

External links

• Books and Writers biographies
• nybooks bio
• Lawrence Russell Essay
• Encyclopaedia Britannica Malaparte
• KAPUTT
• Il Cristo proibito (The Forbidden Christ)
• Capri: Pizzolungo e Malaparte
• Francobolli Pratesi
• Gary Indiana's review of Kaputt
• Collegio Cicognini, Prato