I have just read of the death of the Italian journalist and author Oriana Fallaci. In my opinion she was a great interviewer and her work influenced me a lot during the eighties and beyond. She was in New York on 9/11 and that experience may have clouded her judgement somewhat; yet she has said what others have feared to say with regard to the threat we face. I return to her novel Un Uomo ["A Man"] [1979] a lot and also to Lettera a un Bambino Mai Nato ["Letter to a Child Never Born"] [1975] .
Yes, she was so beautiful too, I remember reading some of her work, I didn't realise she was 76.
ReplyDeleteI posted about Oriana's death too and was surprised to find out that so many people ouside of Italy had never even heard of her. Che peccato.
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