Born Kur Eric Sukert and taking a pen-name meaning "bad place," for 10 points, name this Italian novelist of The Skin and Kaputt.
This author describes in one work a touching scene where a father places presents in the backyard to convince his children that the English are not bombing the city to pieces. Working as a correspondent for Corriere della Serra, his reports from the USSR are collected in The Volga Rises in Europe. He directed the 1953 movie Forbidden Christ and though a fascist sympathizer, he incurred Mussolini's displeasure and was sent to "internal exile" on Lipari for writing the how-to guide Technique of the Coup-d'état. One novel describes the moral degradation that occurs after the liberation of Naples, wherein the only thing people are willing to fight for is the title entity, a metaphor for people's personal flag. In another novel, this author describes with detachment trains disgorging themselves of dead bodies, and sleeping in a house with a rotting horse carcass next to it. Born Kur Eric Sukert and taking a pen-name meaning "bad place," for 10 points, name this Italian novelist of The Skin and Kaputt.
This author describes in one work a touching scene where a father places presents in the backyard to convince his children that the English are not bombing the city to pieces.
{Curzio Malaparte} [accept {Kur Eric Sukert} before mentioned]