Curzio Malaparte : The Narrative Contract Strained

William Hope
Troubador Publishing
 9781899293223
1-899293-22-1

Within a biographical context, this critical study explores the way in which Malaparte used his political pamphlets, prose poems, satirical verse and travel writings for the purposes of self-re-invention..

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The changing nature of the writer's rapport with his readership is also closely analysed, as this volume sheds new light on the controversies which surrounded one of the most versatile Italian writers of the twentieth century.