Antonio Scurati participated in the Turin Book Fair
The writer Antonio Scurati, known for the best-selling novel “M, the son of the century”, about Benito Mussolini, declared this Sunday (12) at the Turin Book Fair, Italy, that an “illiberal change is underway “.
In April, the cancellation of Scurati’s participation in a Rai 3 television program had sparked controversy in the country, raising accusations of censorship against the management of the public broadcaster and the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
“An illiberal change is underway. It is a fact that intellectuals, writers, artists and free thinkers are identified by the current government as enemies. Regardless of my personal case, I am also there along with others. We don’t need to personalize , since it is a process of historical and social dynamics. Personalization means harming democracy”, he declared during his participation in the event.
“I have never spoken about censorship, much less that of Antonio Scurati. A monologue for the Resistance and its memory was cancelled. One of the wounds inflicted on mature and full democracy is that there is a tendency to transform the debate of ideas into attacks against people When I support ideas and you attack me personally, calling me a bandit, greedy and profiteer, you are applying an anti-democratic method which in our history has its roots in fascism”, he added.
In the April controversy, the award-winning author read a monologue on the “Chesarà” program in which he defined the Italian prime minister’s Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) as a “post-fascist ruling group” and explicitly accused the party of wanting to “rewrite history” by ignoring resistance and anti-fascism. .
Source: Terra
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