Antonio Scurati

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Antonio Scurati (born June 25, 1969 in Naples ) is an Italian media theorist and writer.

Life

Antonio Scurati studied philosophy at the Università degli Studi di Milano . After studying at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , he received his doctorate with a dissertation on text theory at the University of Bergamo . He worked there as a research assistant at the Centro studi sui linguaggi della guerra e della violenza and did research on media theory. In 2008 he moved to the Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM in Milan, where he teaches creative writing and rhetoric.

In 2003 he published the essay Guerra. Narrazioni e culture nella tradizione occidentale , which was one of the finalists of the Premio Viareggio . His novel Il sopravvissuto 2005 won the Premio Campiello . In 2006 he gave the media theoretical essay La letteratura dell'inesperienza. Scrivere romanzi al tempo della televisione out. In 2007 he produced the documentary La stagione dell'amore for Fandango , in response to Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1963 survey Comizi d'amore .

In 2009 his novel Il bambino che sognava la fine del mondo was published , in 2010 a collection of articles under the title Gli anni che non stiamo vivendo. Il tempo della cronaca . In 2015, Il tempo migliore della nostra vita came out about Leone Ginzburg , for which it was awarded the Premio Viareggio in the “Fiction” category in the same year.

His work M. Il figlio del secolo on Duce Benito Mussolini , published in 2018, is the first of a three-volume biography. The book aroused great interest and sparked controversial discussions. In 2019 Scurati received the Premio Strega for the book .

Scurati writes for the weekly Internazionale and the daily La Stampa .

Works (selection)

Web links