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fromThe New Yorker
1 day ago

Curzio Malaparte's Shock Tactics

Gobetti, twenty-four and hailed as the most brilliant liberal writer of his generation, hoped to prevent Malaparte, then twenty-seven, from throwing all his talent behind the Fascist cause. "Don't you understand that you're wasting time, that the Fascists are playing you, that in the party you're a fifth-class man, that your writings for the past year haven't been worth a damn?" he wrote. Gobetti died the next year, from injuries inflicted by Black Shirts.
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fromDefector
2 months ago

The Perfect Fascist | Defector

Curzio Malaparte navigated the complexities of Italian fascism, adapting ideologically throughout his life while crafting a self-mythologizing narrative.
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