Scurati Antonio: Čovjek providnosti

Antonio Scurati: The Man of Providence

The second installment of the Mussolini saga 

"I am Italy, I am fascism, I am the meaning of struggle, I am a magnificent historical drama." 

Benito Mussolini, a man of haughty pose, in a black shirt and high boots, who is about to take complete control of Italian social and spiritual life, loses consciousness in his residence, is at death's door. But the youngest Italian prime minister refuses to die from a simple stomach ulcer. And in 1925, Mussolini plans the next step in his project of conquering absolute power: Mussolini, fascism and Italy must be one. On this path, nothing can stop him, not the conflicts of party friends who tear each other apart like a pack of dogs in the fight for position and power, not the intrigues and behind-the-scenes actions he has to undertake in order to adopt "very fascist" laws, not a series of assassinations from which he almost supernaturally escapes unscathed, not even a stormy personal life - because he is, as Pope Pius XI. said, the man sent to us by Providence. 

M. Man of Providence is the second part of the incredible saga about Mussolini, a continuation of the novel M. A child of his time, awarded the most important Italian and international awards, translated into forty languages ​​and sold half a million copies in Italy alone. In an impressive literary and historical reconstruction of the period from 1925 to 1932, Antonio Scurati describes the dying of democracy, the horrors of the first concentration camps in Libya and the first years of Mussolini as Duce, who is not afraid to challenge fate by proclaiming: "My successor has not yet been born." At the same time, it convincingly portrays the men and women who placed all their hopes in that Italy, and with their ambitions and deeds wrote the history that is the origin of us today.

"The second part of an impressive literary endeavor." — La Stampa

"A masterful literary and historical account of the rise of Mussolini. Outstanding, nuanced and stimulating." — Le Figaro

"Scurati weaves with great skill and brilliance the narrative resources of fiction with the rigor and depth of a historical essay. The result is a very vivid immersion in the past, in the bowels of fascism, as well as a lucid reflection on our present, political news contaminated with populist discourses, which the Duce himself could have signed almost a century ago." — La Vanguardia

"With the second volume of Mussolini's romanced biography, Scurati continues his extraordinary undertaking of turning the perniciousness of fascism 
into the subject of literature." — La Repubblica

“An illustration of power and literature.” — Le Monde

“The last days of Italy before the dictatorship have never been depicted in such a powerful and poignant range.” — Basler Zeitung

"Antonio Scurati manages to bring to life the instinctive politician Mussolini. At the same time, he remains faithful to historical facts and draws - subtly but unmistakably - connections with our present." — Title Thesen Temperamente

"Mussolini and fascism are presented in all their rawness. Scurati has the ability to take the reader to the epicenter of the darkest
years of the last century, to make him a witness to a great collective tragedy." — El Español

“The best narrative vaccine we have against populism.” — Corriere della Sera

"Scurati's work clearly shows how vulnerable democracy is... It encourages the reader to pay special attention to the political
currents of today." — Radio Bremen