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Oriana Fallaci

    29 juni 1929 – 15 september 2006

    Oriana Fallaci, journaliste en romanschrijfster, stond bekend om haar onverschrokken aanpak van oorlogsverslaggeving en politieke interviews. Haar geschriften duiken vaak in de rauwe realiteit, waarbij thema's als oorlog, politiek en de menselijke strijd worden onderzocht. Fallaci stond bekend om haar individualistische perspectief, dat feministen soms van streek maakte, naast haar verering van heroïsche mannelijkheid. Haar literaire stijl wordt als baanbrekend beschouwd en doorbreekt de conventionele grenzen van interviews en verslaggeving.

    Oriana Fallaci
    A Man
    Niets en zo zij het
    Penelope trekt ten strijde
    Insjallah
    Interview met de geschiedenis
    Een man
    • Een man

      • 523bladzijden
      • 19 uur lezen

      Het leven van de Griekse dichter en vrijheidsstrijder Alexander Panagoulis die bijna vijf jaar geleden onder verdachte omstandigheden bij een auto-ongeluk om het leven kwam.

      Een man
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    • Interview met de geschiedenis

      • 585bladzijden
      • 21 uur lezen

      Interviews met zesentwintig politici uit de hele wereld, die in de jaren zeventig invloedrijk waren.

      Interview met de geschiedenis
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    • Insjallah

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      • 23 uur lezen

      Relaas van de verschrikkingen van de oorlog in Beiroet in de jaren '80.

      Insjallah
      4,0
    • Penelope trekt ten strijde

      • 246bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      Een Italiaanse journaliste tracht een Amerikaanse jeugdvriend en met hem haar jeugdige dromen, terug te vinden.

      Penelope trekt ten strijde
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    • Niets en zo zij het

      • 354bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      Autobiografie van de Italiaanse journaliste ten tijde van de oorlog in Vietnam.

      Niets en zo zij het
    • A Man

      • 463bladzijden
      • 17 uur lezen

      "What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives." (quote from the book)The book is a pseudo-biography about Alexandros Panagoulis written in the form of a novel. Fallaci had an intense romantic relationship with Panagoulis. She uses the novel to put forth her view that Panagoulis was assassinated by a vast conspiracy, a view widely shared by many Greeks.

      A Man
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    • Published by Rizzoli in 1975, Letter to a Child Never Born was quickly translated and sold in twenty-seven countries, becoming an extraordinary world success. It is the tragic monologue of a woman speaking with the child she carries in her womb. This letter confronts the burning theme of abortion, and the meaning of life, by asking difficult questions: Is it fair to impose life even if it means suffering? Would it be better not to be born at all? Letter to a Child Never Born touches on the real meaning of being a woman: the power to give life or not. When the book begins, the protagonist is upset after learning she is pregnant. She knows nothing about the child, except that this creature depends totally and uniquely on her own choices. The creation of another person directly within one’s own body is a very shocking thing. The sense of responsibility is huge; it is a heavy burden that gives life to endless reflections, from the origin of our existence to the shame of our selfishness. If the child could choose, would he prefer to be born, to grow up, and to suffer, or would he return to the joyful limbo from which he came? A woman’s freedom and individuality are also challenged by a newborn—should she renounce her freedom, her job, and her choice? What should she do at this point?

      Letter to a Child Never Born
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    • The writer's first work for ten years, on themes linked to the events of September 11: America, Italy, Europe, Islam and ourselves, interspersed with personal memoirs.

      The Rage and the Pride
      3,8
    • "Nella mia vita ho visto molte brutte cose. Molte. Sono nata in una tirannia, sono cresciuta in una guerra, e per gran parte della mia esistenza ho fatto il corrispondente di guerra. Per anni (in Vietnam, otto) ho vissuto al fronte. Ho seguito battaglie, ho subito sparatorie e cannoneggiamenti e bombardamenti, ho testimoniato l'umana crudeltà e imbecillità." Mai e poi mai Oriana avrebbe autorizzato una sua biografia, eppure non ha fatto altro che scrivere e raccontare la sua storia straordinaria. Lo ha fatto dalle trincee in Vietnam e dagli uffici della Casa Bianca così come dalla tenda di Gheddafi o dal quartier generale di Khomeini. Ha raccontato la storia del Novecento e con lucidità ha saputo riconoscere il più grande incubo del Ventunesimo secolo: il terrorismo globale. Ha affrontato i grandi leader politici senza mai inchinarsi di fronte al potere. "In ogni mio libro è accennata una traccia della mia biografia umana" ripeteva ai giornalisti che sfidavano la sua proverbiale diffidenza da addetta ai lavori. Così come i suoi quaderni che utilizzava per preparare meticolosamente ogni intervista contengono numerosi appunti autobiografici; brevi note che utilizzava ampliate nei suoi libri. Questi scritti restituiscono con precisione il carattere e il pensiero di una donna sui generis, capace di maltrattare grandi leader politici e divi di Hollywood, consegnando ai suoi lettori il testamento di una vita leggendaria.

      Solo io posso scrivere la mia storia. Autoritratto di una donna scomoda
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