Sunday, February 11, 2018

Pencil sketch of a Nazi by Dr K Prabhakar Rao


CURIO MALAPARTE. FASCIST

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Dr K Prabhakar Rao said...

Curzio Malaparte , stage name of Kurt Erich Suckert ( Prato , 9 June 1898 - Rome , 19 July 1957 ), was an Italian writer , journalist , officer , poet and essayist . He is particularly well known, especially abroad , for his novels Kaputt and La pelle , neorealist works with an autobiographical background based on his experience as a journalist and officer during the Second World War , and Maledetti Toscani . A writer with a realistic and "imaginative" style , defined as " cynical and compassionate " at the same time and sometimes closer to the themes and the raw and " expressionist " style of Louis-Ferdinand CĂ©line , as an intellectual first a supporter of fascism , then a critical voice and an opponent of the same. Characteristic of his literature is the mixture of real facts - the writer was in fact approached the current of neorealism - often autobiographical, to other imaginaries, sometimes exaggerated in a deliberate and conscious way, up to the grotesque , especially when he must denounce the atrocities of the second world war .
Interventionist and volunteer in the Great War , admirer of Mussolini and "fascist of the first hour", he participated in the march on Rome and was active in the positions of intransigent left fascism , supporting the so-called fascist revolution ; gradually moving away from the regime (he was also sent to confinement , from which he came out thanks to his friendship with Galeazzo Ciano , son-in-law of the Duce), after September 8, 1943, he enlisted in the Italian Cobelligerante Army of the Kingdom of Italy and collaborated with the Allies (which also did not save heavy criticism) in the Counter Intelligence Corps in the fight against the Nazis and the fascists of CSR .
After World War II he approached the Italian Communist Party , making friends with Palmiro Togliatti , although many doubted his actual adhesion, or approach, to the PCI (and at the same time the Italian Republican Party , to which he was already a very young member). He died after having converted to the Catholic Church , assisted by the priests Father Cappello and Father Rotondi .The pseudonym, which he used since 1925 , was designed by him as a humorous paronomasia based on the word " Bonaparte ".