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03413aam a2200457 i 4500 001 CEBBF75AEAE411E387729F9EDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140603010131 008 130114s2013 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2012045914 020 $a 1590176227 (pbk.) 020 $a 9781590176221 (pbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)814706235 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d SINLB $d CDX $d OCLCF $d PUL $d YUS $d OCLCO $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ita 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-it--- 050 00 $a PQ4829.A515 $b P413 2013 082 00 $a 853/.912 $2 23 084 $a FIC014000 $a FIC037000 $a FIC014000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Malaparte, Curzio, $d 1898-1957. 240 10 $a Pelle. $l English 245 14 $a The skin / $c Curzio Malaparte ; introduction by Rachel Kushner ; translated by David Moore. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York Review Books, $c [2013] 300 $a xv, 343 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a New York Review Books Classics 520 $a "'It is a shameful thing to win a war.' The reliably unorthodox Curzio Malaparte's own service as an Italian liaison officer with the Allies during the invasion of Italy was the basis for this searing and surreal novel, in which the contradictions inherent in any attempt to simultaneously conquer and liberate a people beset the triumphant but ingenuous American forces as they make their way up the peninsula. Malaparte's account begins in occupied Naples, where veterans of the disbanded and humiliated Italian army beg for work, and ceremonial dinners for high Allied officers or important politicians feature the last remaining sea creatures in the city's famous aquarium. He leads the American Fifth Army along the Via Appia Antica into Rome, where the celebrations of a vast, joy-maddened crowd are only temporarily interrupted when one well-wisher slips beneath the tread of a Sherman tank. As the Allied advance continues north to Florence and Milan, the civil war intensifies, provoking in the author equal abhorrence for killing fellow Italians and for the "heroes of tomorrow," those who will come out of hiding to shout "Long live liberty" as soon as the Germans are chased away. Like Celine, another anarchic satirist and disillusioned veteran of two world wars, Malaparte paints his compatriots as in a fun-house mirror that yet speaks the truth, creating terrifying, grotesque, and often darkly comic scenes that will not soon be forgotten. Unlike the French writer however, he does so in the characteristically sophisticated, lush, yet unsentimental prose that was as responsible for his fame as was his surprising political trajectory. The Skin was condemned by the Roman Catholic Church, and placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Italy $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Italy $v Fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION / War & Military. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Political. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Historical. $2 bisacsh 611 27 $a World War (1939-1945) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180924 651 7 $a Italy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204565 648 7 $a 1939 - 1945 $2 fast 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 700 1 $a Moore, David $c (Translator) 830 0 $a New York Review Books classics. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015250.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CEBBF75AEAE411E387729F9EDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search