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LA PEAU

by Malaparte, Curzio [Kurt Erich Suckert]

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Book Description

Les Editions Denoel, Paris: 1949. PRESENTATION COPY. First French edition, translated from the original Italian by René Novella, paperback, 18.5cm, 505 pages, 8vo, this copy inscribed, signed, and dated by the author (pseudonym for Kurt Erich Suckert) on the half-title: "al mio caro Giuseppe Prezzolini questi "tatuaggi" affetuosamente il suo Curzio Malaparte Parigi 5 Ottobre 1949." Yellow, black, and green paper cover, spine sunned, page edges browning, a fragile but very good copy. LA PELLE/LA PEAU is a surrealistic tale of the degradation of moral and social values in Naples, following liberation by the Allies, a place where everything was for sale. (The Vatican put LA PEAU/LA PELLE on the Index of Prohibited Books.) The title is taken from the author's controversial declaration that, "Tout est fait de peau humaine. Même les drapeaux des armées sont faits de peau humaine. On ne se bat plus pour l'honneur, pour la liberté, pour la justice. On se bat pour la peau, pour cette sale peau." The ironic postwar "tattoos" presentation to legendary publisher, editor and journalist, Giuseppe Prezzolini, is extraordinary as Prezzolini spent the war years in New York, and Malaparte spent them in exile (at hard labor) and later under house arrest. Malaparte makes reference to his time in exile on Lipari in LA PEAU. [Please note that the limitations of this website do not allow this bookseller to reproduce the exact punctuated emphasis Malaparte used in his inscription. Quotation marks are the only representation available in the moderators' program.]

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