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„If you do not believe, look up in here, at my plate”. The Confabulation of Truth in Curzio Malaparte’s Reportages

2016; Index Copernicus International S.A.; Volume: 4; Issue: 47 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5604/01.3001.0013.4300

2299-9906

Marcin Czardybon,

Violence, Religion, and Philosophy

The text concentrates on the war reportages by Curzio Malaparte, an Italian writer, journalist, diplomat and director. They were previously viewed as formally perfect works of reporting, but presently they provoke controversies, mostly because of considerable modifications of facts and the inclusion of strongly subjective fragments. The article is an attempt at capturing the hidden sense of Malaparte’s confabulative text constructions beyond the strategies of autocreation and the author’s striving for commercial success. The article also deals with an important formal aspect of the reports, namely the issue of the permissible relation between the regimes of Warheit and the order of Dichtung. The article makes use of the theories of Hans Blumenberg, Hannah Arendt, Klaus Theweleit, Paweł Zajas, Phillippe Lejeune and others.