KURT ERICH SUCKERT E LA RUSSIA. NUOVE PROSPETTIVE DI STUDI MALAPARTIANI
Creators: name: GIACOBBE, CARLA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2018

description: Curzio Malaparte is a representative author of a complex era of the Italian culture. The style, the main contents, and the features of his production give voice to many of the contradictions that have characterized the first half of the twentieth century in which he lived. Moreover his same charismatic and peculiar personality was rich in contradictions by which he often tried to shock his reading public. The aim of this doctoral dissertation is to analyze some aspects of the malapartian work that have not yet been an object of detailed study and which could suggest new approaches to Malaparte?s production, from a new, original, and wide perspective. Dealing with the very recurring theme of Russia in the author?s work, we have highlighted in it topoi that are also identifiable in the production of contemporary authors concerning same subject. Our purpose has also been to circumscribe a part of Malaparte?s production including works sharing some contents and stylistic features. We then analyzed the novel that constituted the core of our studies and research, The Kremlin Ball, trying to explain the phases of its creative elaboration, narrate the main facts that have inspired its incomplete plot, identify external literary influences and stylistic elements which are typical of the author?s literary production. This research then introduces detailed considerations about the presence of the figure of Bulgakov in Malaparte?s novel, a presence that has not yet been an object of study. Indeed some information should be dealt with and integrated in biographical and critical studies about Malaparte. The biographical contacts between Malaparte and Bulgakov and the similar literary atmospheres of some of their works have been discussed by some Russian researchers: we faced the results of their research with our personal critical approach. We believe that comparative studies could provide further possibilities for the our research. We aim to: integrate missing and pertinent information about the latest edition of The Kremlin Ball; present some documentary material concerning Malaparte?s journey to the Soviet Union that has not been examined yet and a list of Russian translations of the author?s works, in order to add them to the malapartian bibliography currently known. The purpose of this dissertation is highlighting the importance of the cultural relation between Malaparte and Russia, often considered simply as a stage in the author?s ideological evolution overlooking its real and significant value. Finally, the present study analyzes the reception of Malaparte?s literary production in Russia, dealing with the selection and the modes and the moments of publication of works by Malaparte, as well as the main reasons of the Russian readers and publishers? interest in Malaparte?s work. Our analysis of the Russian Malaparte and the malapartian Russia is meant to understand something more about both. Most of all, as the title of the dissertation testifies, we want to offer new perspectives on Malaparte?s studies, since we believe that much still deserves to be investigated about the author.