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...makes me recall how Kurt Erich Suckert explained to me in Rome in 1926 why he had chosen Curzio Malaparte as his pen name (and later as his own name...
...Your justifiably friendly review of Malaparte's Those Cursed Tuscans [Oct. 30] makes me recall how Kurt Erich Suckert explained to me in Rome in 1926 why he had chosen Curzio Malaparte as his pen name (and later as his own name). "Buonaparte," he said, "won at Austerlitz and lost at Waterloo. Malaparte loses at Austerlitz and wins at Waterloo." I knew him from 1925 until his death, and even wrote a "fictitious reminiscence" about him. I can assure you that the hatred and contempt were of his last writing period alone and never in his personal relations...
Died. Curzio Malaparte (real name: Kurt Suckert), 59, Italian writer (Kaputt, The Skin), polemical journalist and unorthodox cinema writer-director-producer (Forbidden Christ, called in the U.S. Strange Deception); of lung cancer; in Rome. Born in Tuscany of a German father, Italian mother, Malaparte was called Fascism's "strongest pen" during the '203, turned hostile to the regime and was interned (1933-38), most recently accepted Italian Communist financing of a trip this spring to China, but on his return, seriously ill, was baptized a Roman Catholic. Despite his erratic politics, his more than two dozen books, which...
...quarrel concerned Fascist policy and was between two members of the fire-eating wing of Fascismo, (Emilio Settimelli and Mario Carli, editors of the Impero [Power], sometimes described as an official Fascist journal) and the two members of the weaker-kneed group, Curzio Suckert and Telesio Interlandi, (editors of the Tevere [Stable], a convenient backyard for Dictator Mussolini's mental gambits...
Deputy Giovanni Conti and Signor Curseio Suckert pricked each other's faces with swords until blood blinded them and physicians stopped the duel. The first gentleman had objected to an article which the second gentleman had written. The fight followed a recent reaction against sword-duelling which was called a "silly survival of Romanticism...
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