biography
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Malaparte, Curzio
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pseudonym of Kurt Erich Suckert
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pronunciation:
[malapah(r)tay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1898–1957)
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| biography:
| Writer and journalist, born in Prato, Tuscany, NC Italy. His service as a volunteer in World War 1 is recounted in the essay La rivolta dei santi maledetti (1921). He first joined the Strapaese movement, but then defected to its antagonist Stracittà. Severing all links with Fascism he wrote Tecnica del colpo di stato (1931), for which he was internally exiled. He fought in the Italian Alpine troops during World War 2, an experience featured in the novels Kaputt (1944), which denounces Nazi cruelty, and Il sole è cieco (1947) and La pelle (1949), where he paints in crudely realistic colours contemporary Italian society. |
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