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1. www.nytimes.com › 2018/12/08 › booksA New Book About Mussolini Is Provoking a Debate Over His ...

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   Dec 8, 2018 · All direct quotes in the book are drawn from historical sources, and Scurati said most of the novelistic reimagining of characters’ inner thoughts is based on such sources as well.

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2. www.newstatesman.com › culture › 2021Mussolini and the rise of fascism - New Statesman

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   Jun 2, 2021 · For nearly all of his narrative Scurati is paraphrasing historical sources, not making things up. In Italy, Scurati’s book has had an equivocal response. On the one hand, it was awarded the prestigious Strega Prize and topped bestseller lists.

3. www.theatlantic.com › books › archiveMussolini Speaks, and Tells Us How Democracy Dies

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   Apr 26, 2022 · Scurati is approaching this tension as a novelist—and a fictional interpretation is of course an exaggeration of historical reality, no matter how grounded by documentation—but seeing these ...

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4. www.lemonde.fr › en › opinionAntonio Scurati: 'In Italy, the post-fascist group in power ...

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   Apr 23, 2024 · The post-fascist group in power, after winning the elections in September 2022, had two possible paths before it: deny its neo-fascist past or attempt to rewrite history.

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5. jacobin.com › 2022 › 10Fascism Was a Violent Counterrevolution - Jacobin

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   Oct 29, 2022 · Scurati insists that “no person, event, speech or sentence narrated in the book is arbitrarily invented,” paying special attention to sources, in the manner of a historian. This is only strengthened by the impression of realism that comes from the inclusion of extracts from archival documents at the end of each chapter.

6. variety.com › 2024 › tvItaly's RAI Slammed for Pulling Anti-Fascist Monologue From ...

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   Apr 22, 2024 · Italian state broadcaster RAI is under heavy fire amid allegations that it censored a planned anti-fascist monologue by prominent writer Antonio Scurati, author of international bestseller “M:...

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   Is Scurati really paraphrasing historical sources?

   • But these are mere colourful extras. For nearly all of his narrative Scurati is paraphrasing historical sources, not making things up. In Italy, Scurati’s book has had an equivocal response. On the one hand, it was awarded the prestigious Strega Prize and topped bestseller lists.

   Mussolini and the rise of fascism - New Statesman

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   Is Scurati a good book?

   • In Italy, Scurati’s book has had an equivocal response. On the one hand, it was awarded the prestigious Strega Prize and topped bestseller lists. On the other, some Italian commentators have questioned the morality of writing a novel that might invite sympathetic understanding of a dictator who bludgeoned his way to power.

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   What does Scurati say about realism?

   • Scurati insists that “no person, event, speech or sentence narrated in the book is arbitrarily invented,” paying special attention to sources, in the manner of a historian. This is only strengthened by the impression of realism that comes from the inclusion of extracts from archival documents at the end of each chapter.

   Fascism Was a Violent Counterrevolution - Jacobin

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   How does Scurati write?

   • Scurati writes with gusto. His style is that of a man unfamiliar with the adage “less is more”. His prose is as verbose and elaborate as his subjects’. He piles on ever more adjectives, more adverbs, more extravagantly protracted sentences. He says things three times over in slightly varying ways.

   Mussolini and the rise of fascism - New Statesman

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   Is Scurati an anti-fascist history lesson disguised as a novel?

   • A self-described anti-fascist, Scurati knew he was walking a fine ideological line with his book, which aims to capture the fascination Mussolini exerted over Italians without falling prey to it. But the way he sees it, his book is an anti-fascist history lesson disguised as a novel.

   A New Book About Mussolini Is Provoking a Debate Over His Legacy

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   Did Rai censor Scurati's anti-fascist monologue?

   • Italian state broadcaster RAI is under heavy fire amid allegations that it censored a planned anti-fascist monologue by prominent writer Antonio Scurati, author of international bestseller “M: Son of the Century,” which reconstructs fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’s rise to power.

   Italy's RAI Slammed for Pulling Anti-Fascist Monologue From ... - Variety

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8. openlettersreview.com › posts › m-son-of-the-centuryM: Son of the Century by Antonio Scurati - Open Letters Review

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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 ...