Naples Liberated: Curzio Malaparte’s “The Skin”
It is hard to think of another work of fiction of such savage irony as Curzio Malaparte‘s La Pelle (1949) …
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The Gallery by John Horne Burns: Americans in Naples, 1944
Missing in almost all war fiction, from the time of Gilgamesh (2800 BCE) on, is the recognition that war …
Touring Italy In Books
Learning a new language, past the age of ten at least, is something like doing a major, complicated leggo construction, …