'Malaparte: A Biography' with author Maurizio Serra @ Casa Italiana NYU

NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò hosts a discussion of Malaparte: A Biography, out February 25 from NYRB, with author Mauizio Serra and translator Stephen Twilley. 

Curzio Suckert (1898-1957)—best known by his pen-name Malaparte—was not only a literary master but one of the mystery men of twentieth-century letters. The son of a cosmopolitan German businessman, his mother an Italian, Malaparte led a life that was intimately entwined from start to finish with the twentieth century’s troubled history. A polymath and shapeshifter—fascist, communist, a converted Catholic on his deathbed—a self-mythologizer on the move between society salons, the corridors of power, and the frontlines, Malaparte is a complex and fascinating subject.

Serra and Twilley are joined in conversation by Andrea Capra, postdoctoral fellow and Italian studies scholar at Princeton University, and Franco Baldasso, Assistant Professor of Italian and Director of Italian studies at Bard College. 

This event is free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come-first-served basis for non-members. Casa Italiana members can reserve seating.