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| Antonio Scurati |
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It’s 2072 and while television celebrates the world’s latest massacres and disasters, the Chinese Empire has finally subjugated Europe. A group of gladiators led by an elderly master fight before hordes of bloodthirsty crowds in New Venice, a city of hedonistic entertainment and transgression, in this apocalyptic, Orwellian parable on current Western decadence and barbarianism.
Antonio Scurati (Naples, 1969) teaches at Milan’s IULM University, as well as television theory and technique, and coordinates the Center on the Study of the language of war and violence at Bergamo University. His first novel, Il rumore sordo della battaglia, was published in 2002. He has written for La Stampa and Internazionale and in 2007 made the documentary La stagione dell’amore. Scurati’s literary prizes include the 2005 Premio Campiello (for Il sopravvissuto) and 2007 Premio SuperMondello (Una storia romantica), and he was shortlisted for the 2003 Viareggio and 2009 Strega (Il bambino che sognava la fine del mondo) awards. In 2010 he published Gli anni che non stiamo vivendo (a collection of his articles on crime, politics and current events) and had his own segment on those same topics on the TV show Parla con me. |
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09/12/2011 ore 16:00
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