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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Son_of_the_Century
M: Son of the Century (Italian: M. Il figlio del secolo) is a 2018 historical novel by Antonio Scurati. It is the first novel in a tetralogy recounting the rise of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. It was a bestseller and was awarded the 2019 Strega Prize.

Summary
M: Son of the Century is the first volume in a series of four books about Benito Mussolini. The series intends to tell the history of Italy beginning on 23 March 1919, the day the Italian Fasces of Combat was founded, and ending in 1945. M: Son of the Century concludes with Mussolini's speech to the Chamber of Deputies on 3 January 1925, which officially established Italy as a dictatorship following the political crisis caused by the murder of Giacomo Matteotti.

Per the novel's copyright page, in the narrative "every single event, character, dialogue, discourse . . . has been historically documented and/or authoritatively witnessed by more than one source."[1] Most chapters are supplemented with excerpts from contemporary documents and sources.[2] For this reason, Scurati has defined the work as a "documentary novel".[3] The citations serve the purpose of rehashing events the author had just rendered fictionally.[1] Scurati actively blurs the boundary between history and fiction throughout the novel.[4][5] With M, Scurati intends to "bring fascism down to earth, giving real knowledge of it as only literature knows how, when it delves into the details of material life".[4]

The novel is narrated primarily by an omniscient third-person narrator who periodically shifts into a first-person speaker—Mussolini himself.[1]