Product Description
Title : PROSPETTIVE
“Prospettive,” the review directed by Curzio Malaparte, is for the first ti
Maker of product: Curzio Malaparte
Format: 24,5X34,5
n° pages: 900
luglio 2006
“Prospettive,” the review directed by Curzio Malaparte, is for the first time proposed in a meticulous anastatic reproduction in a limited edition numbered from 1 to 999. Literature, art, philosophy and politics of the years between 1939 and 1943 found an authoritative rostrum in Malaparte’s review, at a particular historical and political moment in our country. In August 1938, the reprint of the issue devoted to the legionnaires of Spain closed the first series of “Prospettive”, the monthly review founded in 1937 and directed by Curzio Malaparte, pseudonym of Kurt Erich Suckert (1898-1957), dedicated to art and literature. On October 15, 1939, “Prospettive” resumed publication with an issue entitled “Senso vietato” and the collaboration of intellectuals of the calibre of Mario Praz, Alberto Savinio, Alberto Moravia, Aldo Palazzeschi, Rugero Jacobbi, and many others. This was the overall high level of the 27 instalments which are reproduced today for the first time in an anastatic reprint, numbered from 1 to 999. Literature, art, philosophy and politics of the years between 1939 and 1943 found an authoritative rostrum in Malaparte’s review, at a particular historical and political moment in our country. Inspired by his typical eclecticism, following his experience with “Il Selvaggio”, “Prospettive” is characterised by its founder’s ambivalence, full of European experiences and “down-home” nostalgia, animated by a growing need to open up to new experiences and demolish the border between literature and practise. Hence Malaparte’s interest for Surrealism to which he dedicated an entire issue of the review. The reprint also contains the rare issue called “Fascicolo rievocativo”, dated December 1, 1951 – January 1, 1952, containing Malaparte’s polemical essay, “Guerra e sciopero”, a collection of letters with the contributions of D’Annunzio, Apollinaire, Guynemer, Barbuse, Carco and De Pisis’ fine essay entitled “Venezia o la consolazione della pietra”. In its elegant slip-case, “Prospettive” is accompanied by an introductory insert by professor Giuseppe Pardini.