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Apr 6, 2022 · The following is Antonio Scurati's new novel M: Son of the Century. Scurati was born in Naples in 1969 and lives in Milan. He is a Professor of Comparative Literature and Creative writing at the IULM University in Milan and a columnist for Corriere della Sera. Appel has translated works by a number of leading Italian authors for a variety of US ...
M: Son of the Century is the first volume in a series of four books about Benito Mussolini. The series intends to tell the history of Italy beginning on 23 March 1919, the day the Italian Fasces of Combat was founded, and ending in 1945. M: Son of the Century concludes with Mussolini's speech to the Chamber of Deputies on 3 January 1925, which ...
Antonio Scurati (born 25 June 1969) is an Italian writer and academic. A professor of comparative literature and creative writing at the IULM University of Milan, mass media scholar, and editorialist for the Corriere della Sera, Scurati has won the main Italian literary prizes. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Strega Prize for his novel ...
Apr 5, 2022 · In M: Son of the Century, Antonio Scurati tells the story of fascism from within the mind of its founder, the man known to his followers as Il Duce. Steeped in historical detail and interspersed with period documents and sources, this masterful saga explores the seductive power of nationalism and idolatry, revealing how authoritarianism took hold and a nation bent to the will of one ruthless ...
Sep 12, 2018 · Antonio Scurati (° 1969) strikingly evokes the period 1919-1924 when Italy was brimming with revolutionary organizations, chaotic strikes and violent confrontations. It was the ideal breeding ground for ideologically very agile persons such as Mussolini, who also had a psychopathological predilection for radical, violent acts, fueled by the (false) heroism of the trenches.
Apr 26, 2022 · That’s where Antonio Scurati’s novel M: Son of the Century starts. It ends on January 3, 1925, the date commonly considered the beginning of Mussolini’s authoritarian reign, when he claimed ...
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Apr 30, 2022 · Antonio Scurati’s much-lauded novel M. Il figlio del secolo first appeared in 2018, won the prestigious Strega Prize in 2019, and enjoyed hundreds of thousands in sales. It was the first installment in a projected historical fiction trilogy about Benito Mussolini and the life of Italy from 1919, when Italian Fascism came into being, to the end of the story in 1945, with this first volume ...
