Curzio Malaparte’s Shock Tactics - 3 Quarks Daily

Curzio Malaparte’s Shock Tactics - 3 Quarks Daily

Thomas Meaney at The New Yorker: “You’re a born Fascist, one of the authentic ones,” the Italian writer Piero Gobetti wrote to his friend Curzio Malaparte in 1925, three years into Mussolini’s dictatorship. 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…