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- Scurati wrote his novel, he says, largely in response to the fading of a certain postwar consensus, one that perceived fascism as the ultimate evil.
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Dec 8, 2018 · 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...
- Emma Johanningsmeier
Apr 26, 2022 · Scurati wrote his novel, he says, largely in response to the fading of a certain postwar consensus, one that perceived fascism as the ultimate evil.
- Antonio Scurati
Jun 2, 2021 · 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.
His 2002 debut novel, Il rumore sordo della battaglia [The Muffled Sound of the Battle], republished in a new edition in 2006, deals with the advent of firearms at the end of the era of the condottieri during Italian Renaissance. The book testifies to Scurati’s long-standing interest in the language of violence in Western culture.
Scurati's writing appeared in the weekly publication Internazionale and the daily newspaper La Stampa. [5] In 2007, he published the historical novel Una storia romantica. [5] In the same year, Scurati produced a documentary film for the Italian company Fandango. [5]
M: Son of the Century (Italian: M. Il figlio del secolo) is a 2018 historical novel by Antonio Scurati. It is the first novel in a tetralogy recounting the rise of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. It was a bestseller and was awarded the prestigious Strega Prize.
Apr 6, 2022 · A huge bestseller in Europe, Antonio Scurati’s “M,” an account of Benito Mussolini’s climb to power in Italy, is stuffed with provocative ideas and squirm-inducing contemporary parallels.
