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Curzio Malaparte; translated from Italian by David Moore
The Marlboro Press, Marlboro, Vt, Vermont, 1988
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Una terribile peste dilaga a Napoli dal giorno in cui, nellottobre del 1943, gli eserciti alleati vi sono entrati come liberatori: una peste che corrompe non il corpo ma lanima, spingendo le donne a vendersi e gli uomini a calpestare il rispetto di s. Trasformata in un inferno di abiezione, la citt offre visioni di un osceno, straziante orrore: la ragazza che in un tugurio, aprendo lentamente la rosea e nera tenaglia delle gambe, lascia che i soldati, per un dollaro, verifichino la sua verginit; le parrucche bionde o ruggine o tizianesche di cui donne con i capelli ossigenati e la pelle bianca di cipria si coprono il pube, perch; i bambini seminudi e pieni di terrore che megere dal viso incrostato di belletto vendono ai soldati marocchini, dimentiche del fatto che a Napoli i bambini sono la sola cosa sacra. La peste questa lindicibile verit nella mano pietosa e fraterna dei liberatori, nella loro incapacit di scorgere le forze misteriose e oscure che a Napoli governano gli uomini e i fatti della vita, nella loro convinzione che un popolo vinto non possa che essere un popolo di colpevoli. Nullaltro rimane allora se non la lotta per salvare la pelle: non lanima, come un tempo, o lonore, la libert, la giustizia, ma la schifosa pelle. E, forse, la piet: quella che in uno dei pi bei capitoli di questo insostenibile e splendido romanzo uno dei pochi che negli anni successivi alla guerra abbiano lasciato un solco indelebile nel mondo intero spinge Consuelo Caracciolo a denudarsi per rivestire del suo abito di raso, delle calze, degli scarpini di seta la giovane del Pallonetto morta in un bombardamento, trasformandola in Principessa delle Fate o in una statua della Madonna. Come ha scritto Milan Kundera, nella Pelle Malaparte con le sue parole fa male a se stesso e agli altri; chi parla un uomo che soffre. Non uno scrittore impegnato. Un poeta.
Alternative title
La pelle
Alternative author
Malaparte, Curzio, 1898-1957
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Marlboro, Vermont: Marlboro Press
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Marlboro Press, Incorporated, The
Alternative edition
United States, United States of America
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US, 1988
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类型: 图书
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出版日期: 1988
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出版社: Marlboro Pr
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页码: 344
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开本: $64.91
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价格: 8.2 x 5.5 x 1 inches
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Translation of: La pelle.
Alternative description
Curzio Malaparte extends the great fresco of European society he begin Kaputt. There the scene was Eastern Europe, here it is Italy during the years from 1943-1945; instead of Germans, the invaders are the American armed forces. Here Malaparte presents triumphant American innocence against the background of the European experience of destruction and moral collapse
Alternative description
Experiences of the author while serving as Italian liason officer with the 5th Army.
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344 pages ; 21 cm
Translation of: La Pelle
Translation of: La Pelle
date open sourced
2024-11-05
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