Oriana Fallaci, the entire bibliography republished by BUR Finally, after two years after the death of Orianna Fallaci, the BUR publish a new series reprinting all the writer's books in hardcover format.
We start with a gem: the exciting and increasingly relevant reading of "
Letter to a Child Never Born " Oriana Fallaci in 1993.
A 4-CD audiobook that explores in depth the controversial religious and moral dilemmas of abortion, and the reflection of a woman, given to women and men, capable of upsetting the consciences and dig in the heart of several generations.
unique opportunity to be affected by the unique voice of Oriana.
From an interview with Barbara Carazzolo published by Oriana Fallaci "Famiglia Cristiana" October 6, 1993 The letter was the result of a disobedience of the reporter: the commissioned survey on abortion and she returned after six months with the story.
[...] "I have not had children of flesh and it was a great disappointment. So my books are my children's paper. " This Letter to a Child Never Born has a little son a 'special, the result of disobedience. "My boss then was Thomas Giglio and I commissioned a major survey on abortion:" Take four months, "he said," do what you want and go wherever you like but comes back with the investigation. " After six months I returned with my sheaf of papers in hand but rather the investigation was the book. Not one has ever forgiven me for fifteen days and not even the words he addressed to me. "
Eighteen years after this novel is a child that still gives a lot of satisfaction. Fallaci, at the time, dedicated it "to a woman for all women." Now denies that dedication. "Men have changed, motherhood is no longer a word that belongs only to women," she says. "Not surprisingly, in some countries, the book is like most men and women. They too can be a mother: to feed, grow, teach a child to walk. I have known many men like that. "
From April 2009, the novel in the same collection is available in paper format.
first title in print in the series is "
Interview with History."
Published by Rizzoli in 1974 and repeated in several paperbacks from Bur (1977.1994 and 2001), after 5 years of absence, finally back in Interview With History Library, a collection of twenty-six of the best interviews torn from the Department of History by Fallaci, then reporter of the 'European'. Published in eleven countries, is an extraordinary book that demonstrates the journalistic technique of unsurpassed Oriana, and nobody in the world that she was truly unattainable.
With a preface by Federico Rampini.
orianafallaci.com From site:
The Sixties and Seventies saw Oriana at the forefront of the hottest fronts in the world: Vietnam, the Plaza of Three Cultures in Mexico City, Detroit shocked by the revolt of the blacks, the terrible Indo-Pakistani war, the resistance to the Greek Colonels' regime, the Middle East and South America.
journalist Fallaci is everywhere, and as a worm does everything to live "in history. Living History in the very moment in which it takes place. Witnessing the atrocities of war and the filth of peace. " To understand the mechanisms
most secret meetings and interviews without discounts all the politicians most visible - and therefore more untouchable - the world, the characters "who had won the lottery of power decide our fate."
From CIA chief William Colby to Yassir Arafat, hotly contested from the interview in which the U.S. security adviser Henry Kissinger had said - and then denied - to feel like a "lone cowboy" to guide America and the world, that all'Iman Khomeini, where Oriana controversially took off the chador, calling it "stupid medieval rag from 'passing through the meeting with General Giap, Pietro Nenni, Golda Meir, his companion Alekos Panagoulis, Ali Bhutto, Hussein of Jordan, Nguyen Van Thieu, Indira Gandhi and many others, the tenacity and passion of Fallaci give rise to exceptional documents that condemn the ruthless power, and urging disobedience to fight for unconditional freedom.
continues with the publication of three other books, now out of print for several years.
"The unpleasant" is formidable and irreverent survey that collects eighteen face-off between the young star Fallaci and the most famous of those times.
Actors, directors, athletes, writers, musicians, politicians, playboy: no one is spared by the obstinacy and sense of humor of the thirty-four Oriana, former candidate for Olympus journalism world. From the site
orianafallaci.com: "There are always people on everyone's lips, and all of whom we know and everything they say:" Wherever it comes to them, wherever they discussed them, their gestures, their loves, their fights, their poems' are unpleasant, are the stars who always occupy the front pages of news and rumors, that invade anyone's life without asking for permission to blurt out their stories on the square, public or they are private.
bizarre characters, who often during the meetings reveal surprising sides of his character, ready to anything to be noticed: the protagonists of the eighteen interviews choices between Oriana those published on the 'European' since 1954.
Ingrid Bergman, Don Jaime de Mora y Aragón, Nilde Iotti, Federico Fellini, Arletty, Baby Pignatari, Catherine Spaak, Gianni Rivera, Afdera Fonda Franchetti, Antonio Ordoñez, Cayetana d'Alba, Salvatore Quasimodo, Jeanne Moreau, Alfred Hitchcock, Anna Magnani, Porfirio Rubirosa, Natalia Ginzburg and Giancarlo Menotti stars are interviewed in this collection, where each meeting is introduced by a portrait based based on the staff that Fallaci was made during the conversation: "I did every interview preceded by a presentation [...]. He also said other things that do not always have to do with the interview and that, inevitably, contain a review sull'intervistato. This does not appeal to lovers of objective journalism for which the opinion is a lack of objectivity, but it troubles me very little. What they call objectivity does not exist. Objectivity is hypocrisy, presumption, because the assumption that anyone who provides information or has discovered the true picture of Truth. "
And this opinion, unnecessary stress, it will not always flattering. To take one example, on which Hitchcock had always loved Fallaci can not help but write: "To be objective, it was quite disgusting: swollen, purple, man dressed as a seal. Not that the mancavan mustache. Since then the sweat dripped grease seal Olioso copious and, in most puzzolentissimo smoking a cigar that was the only advantage to hide it for long seconds behind a thick blue cloud. " "
" Sex useless " is the result of a masterful reportage Oriana wrote touring the world to the 'European', the investigative book on the field to answer some key questions on the female. "Where women live happier? And women, when they are happy, and so I am in relation to what? You can find a" Planet of Women "distinct, problems and ambitions, from a" planet men '? "
orianafallaci.com From site: " It was not easy for a woman as independent and combative Fallaci, psychologically projected in a similar search. In the preface to the book, wrote: "As for me can I avoid always writing about women and issues affecting women. I do not know why, it makes me uncomfortable, I get ridiculous. Women are not a special fauna and do not understand why they should be, especially newspapers, a separate topic: how sport, politics and the weather forecast.
But if in some parts of the female sex was considered a second- perhaps even useless, worth perhaps worth investigating ... from Karachi to New York from India, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Japan after about fifty thousand miles of travel in the company of photographer Duilio Pallottelli, Oriana is back with a report original, unpredictable and fun, which appeared in part on the columns of the 'European'. The result goes beyond the gloomiest expectations: women in dozens of countries around the world, is nothing but a complement of man and the house, an object with no dignity, no rights, and above all, unpretentious.
His reportage around the woman has nothing of the essay or ethnological folklore: it is an amazing story, made irresistible by his journalistic verve, people, traditions and things.
Women of all skin smile and tell them the condition and hypocrisy without hesitation, that mixing candor and a touch of malice that make sex an extraordinary document useless. "
third volume, unavailable for over 50 years now and recently published
" The Seven Sins of Hollywood " an investigation that is ahead of its time shedding light on the darker side of show business. A very young Oriana investigates the secrets of American stardom, living the everyday life of the sweet life and penetrating in its own way nell'inespugnabile microcosm of Hollywood.
From the site
orianafallaci.com: "came to Rome to work with the 'European' in 1954, Oriana creates new friends quickly in that small universe frivolous and so far from what he had always lived, to uncover the ' defendants' need to share their lives, the same premises, the same luxuries and whims. Thus begins to delve into and become part of a judge who mingles with the stars, a sort of infiltrated the all-seeing and trying to decipher .
To understand more closely the star system, Fallaci, however not satisfied with the sweet life in Rome: it several times in the United States, and begins to intrude more and more common in Hollywood to understand the hidden mechanisms, see unfiltered media characters who move in an uninhibited way.
here came the dozens of published articles on the 'European', in which Fallaci-Mata Hari (she compares Welles, in the introduction to the book, the beauty, the acumen, the ability to spy on and go unnoticed) brings up the mysterious zones of famous people who try to give a picture of himself studied in detail, and often does not match reality.
You will find a lot of Marilyn Monroe in the Seven Deadly Sins of Hollywood (or Hollywood view through the keyhole, as Oriana would have liked to call the book), but was the only one that can not be joined by Fallaci ("Who says Hollywood immediately think of Marilyn Monroe. But it is useless to seek in this book is a portrait or an interview with Marilyn Monroe. There is not. I was in Hollywood over once you are unbearable been a long summer, I entered the homes of the stars, I ate with them, I went swimming in their pools. I have suffered their tears, their lies and their arrogance, but I have never, I mean never, talked to-face with Miss Jean Mortenson, aka Marilyn Monroe). And to say that he looked really long. He met instead
all the other stars of those years, and Hollywood has managed to give a specific, special, without forgetting that, as he said his friend, writer Bill, "Hollywood does not exist. [...] Hollywood is a state of mind, a mirage. Hollywood does not look with eyes but with the desire, envy, fascination. "
