The Talented Mr. Malaparte

Curzio Malaparte was the Ernst Jünger of the Italians. They were born three years apart, Jünger in 1895 and Malaparte in 1898, and the outlines of their biographies are oddly similar. The son of a bourgeois businessman becomes the soldier who fights with honor in World War I. He returns from the trenches as a wounded and decorated veteran, and an enemy of democracy. In the 1920s, he is acclaimed as a writer and develops his own theories of national socialism, but he is at odds with his country’s dictator in the 1930s.

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