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Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian HolocaustThe Iaşi Pogrom in Curzio Malaparte’s Kaputt: Between History and Fiction

Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust: The Iaşi Pogrom in Curzio... [Curzio Malaparte (1898–1957), one of the most important Italian writers of the twentieth century, particularly owes his fame to his novels written during and immediately after World War II, namely Kaputt (1944) and The Skin (1949). Kaputt is especially significant with respect to Malaparte’s biography and bibliography: the novel presents the collapse of Europe during the war and has been considered one of the first literary testimonies on the Holocaust, but it also marks Malaparte’s emergence from a period of ideological ambiguity. Furthermore, Kaputt stands as an important document attesting to the twentieth-century history of the Romanians and of the Jews in Romania: one entire chapter is dedicated to the Iafi pogrom, which took place at the end of June 1941. Although the international fame of the author, and this novel in particular, made the tragic event and place known worldwide, such has not been the case in Romania. Malaparte is not, however, unknown to Romanian readers: Kaputt was translated into Romanian in 1999, and other translations of the author’s books preceded and followed this work. Whereas the Jewish community of Iaşi1 can still remember Malaparte’s passage through their city, his novel does not appear to have helped the city’s other inhabitants know their own history much better. Nor does the “educated” Romanian audience seem to have drawn any lesson from reading the novel, as indicated by the Romanian translation of Kaputt.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian HolocaustThe Iaşi Pogrom in Curzio Malaparte’s Kaputt: Between History and Fiction

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series
Editors: Glajar, Valentina; Teodorescu, Jeanine
Gheorghiu, Mihai Dinu
Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust — Oct 18, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2011
ISBN
978-1-349-29451-0
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47 –56
DOI
10.1057/9780230118416_3
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Abstract

[Curzio Malaparte (1898–1957), one of the most important Italian writers of the twentieth century, particularly owes his fame to his novels written during and immediately after World War II, namely Kaputt (1944) and The Skin (1949). Kaputt is especially significant with respect to Malaparte’s biography and bibliography: the novel presents the collapse of Europe during the war and has been considered one of the first literary testimonies on the Holocaust, but it also marks Malaparte’s emergence from a period of ideological ambiguity. Furthermore, Kaputt stands as an important document attesting to the twentieth-century history of the Romanians and of the Jews in Romania: one entire chapter is dedicated to the Iafi pogrom, which took place at the end of June 1941. Although the international fame of the author, and this novel in particular, made the tragic event and place known worldwide, such has not been the case in Romania. Malaparte is not, however, unknown to Romanian readers: Kaputt was translated into Romanian in 1999, and other translations of the author’s books preceded and followed this work. Whereas the Jewish community of Iaşi1 can still remember Malaparte’s passage through their city, his novel does not appear to have helped the city’s other inhabitants know their own history much better. Nor does the “educated” Romanian audience seem to have drawn any lesson from reading the novel, as indicated by the Romanian translation of Kaputt.]

Published: Oct 18, 2015

Keywords: Jewish Community; Romanian History; Romanian People; International Fame; Jewish Merchant

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