2024-04-22 01:00:50
(ANSA) – NAPLES, APRIL 21 – Applause at La Repubblica delle Idee, in Naples, for the writer Antonio Scurati. Today is the first meeting in which Scurati takes part after his monologue on April 25th was blocked by Rai; the text was supposed to be read by the writer himself last night during the CheSarà broadcast on Rai3. A monologue that Scurati is reading today. “Populism and fascism. Mussolini today” is the title of the meeting, in the courtyard of honor of Palazzo Reale, with Scurati, the director of la Repubblica Maurizio Molinari and Raffaella Scuderi. “It’s hard, tiring, painful, I’m a private citizen who reads and writes books and suddenly, for having been a writer, I find myself at the center of a fierce, ruthless political-ideological controversy made up of denigrating personal attacks that paint me as a profiteer, almost like an extortionist,” says the writer. And he returns to talk about Prime Minister Meloni and the choice not to define himself as anti-fascist: “I stick to the visible surface of things, there is no need for behind-the-scenes, I read the history of these people, I tend to adopt a historical perspective on events as a novelist. It seems very simple, let’s see where it comes from, from the youth militancy in the Italian social movement founded by Almirante and Romualdi, the servants of the German torturers, the massacres, the shooters”. And then he adds: “Their motto has always been don’t deny, don’t restore. A motto that we still stick to today. I’d say that’s how it is.” “I have written 11-12 books and there is never a reference to fascism, I also have other interests – he continues – they are the ones who don’t want to say that little word and who don’t want to dispel the shadows and sever that bond. The shadows walk with They”. He also confesses his fears: “When a political leader of such charisma, as Prime Minister Meloni certainly is, who has a very large following, in whose following somewhere down there, also given the political history from which he comes, there ‘there is certainly some individual who is no stranger to violence, probably not very balanced, when the leader points the finger at the enemy and the newspapers, or rather the ‘squad journalists’ who support the government put you on the front pages, with the headline under ‘the man of M.’, they draw a target around your face. Then maybe there is someone aiming at that target. It happens, it has already happened.” (HANDLE).
2024-04-22 01:00:50