Curzio Malaparte The Narrative Contract Strained

Besides offering a biographical overview of one of Italy's most versatile yet controversial writers, this volume explores Malaparte's use of his political pamphlets, prose poems, satitical verse and travel writing for the purposes of re-invention. These were publications which captured the imaginations of Fascist readers, but which ultimately alienated his post-war readership. 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. 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.Hope, William is the author of 'Curzio Malaparte The Narrative Contract Strained' with ISBN 9781899293223 and ISBN 1899293221.