KLASSIKER DES MONATS: »CURZIO MALAPARTE ›DIE HAUT‹«

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Reading: Shenja Lacher

"The Skin" by Curzio Malaparte, born in Tuscany in 1898 as Kurt Erich Suckert - the son of a German father and an Italian mother - and died in 1957, is one of the "most horrific and at the same time magnificent books of the 20th century" (Kurier). A scandalous novel and at the same time an epochal anti-war book that can now be rediscovered in Frank Heibert's translation (Rowohlt // with a foreword by Florian Illies). In 1943, the liaison officer Malaparte (!) embarks on an odyssey through the destroyed country, the inhabitants live in misery and chaos, Mount Vesuvius erupts. Naples is hell on earth. It is the image of a modern Sodom and Gomorrah - as topical in our present day, far removed from peace, as it was when it was first published in 1949.

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