The Skin (novel)

The Skin
AuthorCurzio Malaparte
Original titleLa pelle
LanguageItalian
PublisherAria d'Italia
Publication date
1949
Publication placeItaly
Pages416

The Skin (Italian: La pelle) is a 1949 autobiographical novel by the Italian writer Curzio Malaparte.

Plot

The Skin is a fictionalised account of the Allied occupation of Naples after Italy's defeat in World War II, during which Malaparte, whose homonymous author persona appears as the book's narrator, worked as a liaison officer for the American army. The book consists of vignettes about degradation, prostitution and cruelty.

Reception

Like Malaparte's 1944 book Kaputt, The Skin became successful internationally.[1] In 2006, Gary Indiana wrote in Bookforum that The Skin has "the densely packed, peripatetic, demonic abandon of a vaudeville revue in hell" and makes the supposed liberation of Italy appear as a gross nightmare.[2] When it was published in the NYRB Classics series in 2013, Time Out New York wrote that it has a "unique, smirking idiom" and that the main character comes off as cynical and as "a sort of spokesman for the defeated nation, at once obsequious and condescending to his new American overlords".[3]

Adaptation

The book was adapted into the 1981 film The Skin directed by Liliana Cavani.[4]

See also

  • Naples '44, a similar account of Naples under Allied occupation

References

  1. ^ Hope, William (2000). Curzio Malaparte: The Narrative Contract Strained. p. 82. ISBN 1-899293-221.
  2. ^ Indiana, Gary (2006). "A Million Little Theses". Bookforum. 13 (2). Retrieved 8 November 2023.
  3. ^ "Book review: The Skin by Curzio Malaparte". Time Out New York. 5 November 2013. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
  4. ^ "Perversity in Wartime and After". The New York Times. 6 February 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2023.

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