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Malaparte: A House Like Me | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Mcdonough
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book
List Price: $150.00
Buy New: $90.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 883863
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3
Dimensions (in): 11 x 9.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0609603787
Dewey Decimal Number: 728.372094573
EAN: 9780609603789
ASIN: 0609603787
Publication Date: November 23, 1999
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Product Description
Malaparte: A House Like Me offers an extraordinary look at Malaparte, the man and the house. Often called the most beautiful house in the world, Casa Malaparte in Capri, Italy, is dramatically sited on a promontory overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.It was home to Curzio Malaparte (1898-1957), the Italian writer who designed the building. A perpetual enigma, he still confounds nearly all who care to look. Actor, novelist, poet, filmmaker, soldier, playwright, journalist, political figure, prisoner, composer, charmer -- inventor and revealer of truths -- Malaparte associated with Mussolini and Stalin, vilified Hitler, and admired Mao. He was a journalist in London, a collaborator with the Surrealists in Paris, and a war correspondent in Berlin and on the Russian front. "Casa come me," he called the building -- "house like me" -- inviting endless speculation as to what meaning lay within.
Much as Picasso, Breton, Pound, Eliot, and Godard discovered the house and its legendary owner earlier in the century, such international personalities as Robert Venturi, Emilio Ambasz, Willem Dafoe, Steven Holl, Michael Graves, Peter Eisenman, Arata Isozaki, Louis Cha, Carla Fendi, James Wines, and Karl Lagerfeld have created this special portfolio embodying unique insights into the controversial artist and his provocative home.
A work of art in itself, Malaparte: A House Like Me includes a series of photographs produced especially by the renowned Italian photographer Mimmo Jodice, archival materials and documents, poetry, original art, letters, memoirs, commentaries, and an original musical score. Organized and edited by noted architect, designer, and writer Michael McDonough, this remarkable book ultimately celebrates Casa Malaparte's enigmatic contradictions, seeing it as a "living literary work, an autobiography, and a mysterious tabula rasa; a house that lives in myth."
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 The unseen Capri July 7, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you go Napoli's gulf you should visit Capri. Don't make the mistake i made by following herds of tourists to Capri. All that you'll be able to see is a kind of disney village and a lot of postcard shops and eat unbelievably expensive ice cream.
And you'll probably miss a landmark of architecture which is Malaparte's house.
The book is not only a great bargain, it is an intelligent tribute to Malaparte. You should also read Malaparte's The Skin.
A BOOK AS EXTRORDINARY AS THE HOUSE ITSELF! December 12, 1999
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The book is amazing. It captures the dialogue of the house and Mr. Malaparte! The play of form, thought, nature, and politics. The graphic collection is presented is a collage of layers and frames.
fascinating November 29, 1999
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
more like a scrapbook, this art book was most enjoyable, voyering into a fascinating life
Fascinating Malaparte-----Fascinating McDonough! November 19, 1999
This book introduced me to Malaparte the man, the house, the artist, the character and to those whose lives he had an effect upon. Fascinating Malaparte written by Fascinating McDonough!
read with joy November 18, 1999
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
a beatiful book,so well written a passion to shar
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