Word: suckert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
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