The 3 best books by Antonio Scurati

A writer like Antonio Scuratti It is by vocation, for the pleasure of telling stories. And then it comes, or not, that success the first to the fourth or the fifth time. And surely Scurati knows he was just as good a writer with his previous stories., but the success is more about hitting the crux of the commercial opportunity, the unsuspected hole that makes a plot the best of the moment, of the month, of the year or just of the day.

And then back to the solitude of the true writer, the one who is freer to decide whether to indulge in an idea, a kind of historical fiction or if, on the contrary, he succumbs to that almost anthropological chronicling tendency of every narrator of his time...

Although under any argument there is always another type of existential leitmotif of the person who tells us the facts. Behind the disguise of the current genre, each writer continues to exorcise his demons, revealing his deepest pleasures or manifesting the own estrangement of happiness as a fleeting instant and valuable creative essence. Scurati is that type of writer committed above all to himself.

Top 3 recommended books by Antonio Scurati

M. The son of the century

In Spain, M.'s story has an even comical tone because of the mysterious M. Rajoy who appeared in opaque accounts of some political party. But in the case of Scurati's Italy, M.'s matter is much more sinister because he refers to Mussolini.

Recreating the life of a character as disastrous as this one is not something that sounds foreign to me. In fact, I also noted in my novel «The arms of my cross»To a uchrony on Hitler's survival at the end of World War II.

This time the Scurati thing goes more to the sociological aspect over the character itself. The result is that revision of the motives of the human being to allow himself to be overcome by his own moral misery ...

Human history is littered with individuals whose names will endure forever; there are others so iconic that they are known only by their first name. But there is another category, that of those who cannot even be named and for whom a letter is enough: Benito Mussolini belongs to it.

This is the fictionalized biography of a man and, through him, also that of an entire epoch, that of the rise of fascism. But M. The son of the century it is above all a vibrant, hypnotic story, with the depth of an essay and the narrative rhythm of the best contemporary fiction, about how a society decided to indulge in the delusions of grandeur of one man.

M. The son of the century

Unfaithful father

There are times in life as a couple when the worst of all is infidelity with oneself. Because in the effort to bury the internal claims in order to start living badly in the shadow of the other, self-destruction points to a guilt with no possible cure.

"Maybe I don't like men" The day your wife suddenly bursts into tears in the kitchen, a small cataclysm occurs: your existence falls apart, but at the same time, it begins to be understood. It is then that the narrator of the novel, Glauco Revelli (chef in a famous restaurant, forty years old and father of a three-year-old daughter) begins to see what his life is really like.

While recounting his life experiences, such as access to the world of work, falling in love, building a family, Revelli also reflects on the changes in roles and values ​​that have occurred in our society with the turn of the century, changes that radically question the mindsets that I had grown up with:
Our mistake had been wanting to be happy. The generations that had preceded us had never subjected marriage to that kind of mortgage. '

Unfaithful father

A romantic story

Sometimes the historical staging is just a resource, a need for the writer to position each character and make room for ways of seeing life and the world that already escape us today but that, thanks precisely to this creative trompe l'oeil, we can return to discover as if we were occupying souls from other times.

Winds of revolution are blowing in Europe, and in Milan a group of poorly armed men revolt against the Austrian army to win back the freedom of the city.

Winds of revolution are blowing in Europe, and in Milan a group of poorly armed men revolt against the Austrian army to win back the freedom of the city. In those bright days of 1848, at the gates of the First Italian War of Independence, declared by Carlos Alberto de Savoya, and before Garibaldi returned to Italy to participate in the revolt, Jacopo and Aspasia lived a love as brief as the insurrection, but perennial as an ideal that will never die.

His is a story of passion and betrayal in a world that dreamed of absolute ideals and loves. Thirty-six years after these events, Count Italo Morosini, senator of the Kingdom of Italy, receives an anonymous manuscript that takes him back in time. When all illusions seem lost and all passions have already been extinguished, destiny knocks on his door to ask him to account.

A romantic story
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