Son of the Century
Nacht für Nacht trÿumt ein Kind vom Ende der Welt. Das Kind sucht das Feuer, es ist Schlafwandler.30 Jahre spÿter erlebt der junge Mann, der seine Kindheit mit diesen Albtrÿumen verbrachte, wie eine Stadt in Angst und Schrecken versinkt. Kinde...
Gegen den Faschismus aufzuschreien, lenkt vom wahren Problem ab: dem Populismus. Antonio ScuratiDer italienische Intellektuelle und Bestsellerautor Antonio Scurati thematisiert die Popularitat faschistischer, rechtsextremer und ultra-reaktionarer ...
An anti-fascist history lesson disguised as a novel New York Times A masterful historical account, an extraordinary and stimulating book. A portrait of Benito Mussolini all the more accurate and powerful as it is factual and rigorous. An audacious, fluid, dazzling production. A brilliant story Le Figaro An indisputable literary achievement. Scurati carefully examines history, with an experienced prose rich in literary allusions. Like Yourcenar, Gore Vidal, Sebald, Echenoz or Fences. Italo Calvino would have loved it El Pas Resembles a political thriller surprisingly modern. A must read Die Zeit The novel Italy has been waiting for. A masterpiece. Roberto Saviano Panoptic and polyphonic, Scuratis book gives us the experiences of the fearful and the feared, the rhetoric of both the revolutionaries and the reactionaries a multitude of short fragments that collectively add up to an immense mosaic Lucy Hughes-Hallett, New Statesman
Antonio 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. He is the author of various novels which have won an array of literary prizes in Italy, and M: The Son of the Century is the first to be translated into English. The first in a quartet of novels about Mussolini and the rise of fascism, it was the winner of the 2019 Strega award and has been translated into forty languages.