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La luna di Oriana
Lo sbarco sulla Luna, la realizzazione di un grande sogno che infuocò l'immaginario mondiale e segnò i confini di un'epoca. Fu Oriana Fallaci, sempre testimone in prima linea della Storia, a raccontare agli italiani la corsa americana allo spazio, inviata da "L'Europeo" a Cape Kennedy, dove i razzi alti come grattacieli si preparavano a lanciare l'uomo nel futuro. La giornalista intervistò scienziati, medici, scrittori, fisici e tecnici, esplorando da terra lo spazio, vivendo fianco a fianco con i primi astronauti, "queste creature di fantascienza che dalla provincia volano direttamente nel cosmo", per rivelare dettagli, curiosità e aneddoti al pubblico che la leggeva da casa. Una raccolta di articoli, mai apparsi prima in volume, in cui Oriana non racconta solo la Luna, ma quegli eroi dello spazio che furono suoi amici, le missioni indimenticabili, la speranza di trovare vita su Marte, così come avevano immaginato scrittori visionari prima che lo spazio, l'ultima frontiera, diventasse realmente raggiungibile. Una testimonianza sull'avventura più grande del secolo, narrata dalla viva voce di una donna che ne fu parte, e non solo come spettatrice.
274 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 4, 2018
About the author
Oriana Fallaci
59 books1,623 followersOriana Fallaci was born in Florence, Italy. During World War II, she joined the resistance despite her youth, in the democratic armed group "Giustizia e Libertà". Her father Edoardo Fallaci, a cabinet maker in Florence, was a political activist struggling to put an end to the dictatorship of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. It was during this period that Fallaci was first exposed to the atrocities of war.
Fallaci began her journalistic career in her teens, becoming a special correspondent for the Italian paper Il mattino dell'Italia centrale in 1946. Since 1967 she worked as a war correspondent, in Vietnam, for the Indo-Pakistani War, in the Middle East and in South America. For many years, Fallaci was a special correspondent for the political magazine L'Europeo and wrote for a number of leading newspapers and Epoca magazine. During the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre prior to the 1968 Summer Olympics, Fallaci was shot three times, dragged down stairs by her hair, and left for dead by Mexican forces. According to The New Yorker, her former support of the student activists "devolved into a dislike of Mexicans":
The demonstrations by immigrants in the United States these past few months "disgust" her, especially when protesters displayed the Mexican flag. "I don't love the Mexicans," Fallaci said, invoking her nasty treatment at the hands of Mexican police in 1968. "If you hold a gun and say, 'Choose who is worse between the Muslims and the Mexicans,' I have a moment of hesitation. Then I choose the Muslims, because they have broken my balls."
In the late 1970s, she had an affair with the subject of one of her interviews, Alexandros Panagoulis, who had been a solitary figure in the Greek resistance against the 1967 dictatorship, having been captured, heavily tortured and imprisoned for his (unsuccessful) assassination attempt against dictator and ex-Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos. Panagoulis died in 1976, under controversial circumstances, in a road accident. Fallaci maintained that Panagoulis was assassinated by remnants of the Greek military junta and her book Un Uomo (A Man) was inspired by the life of Panagoulis.
During her 1972 interview with Henry Kissinger, Kissinger agreed that the Vietnam War was a "useless war" and compared himself to "the cowboy who leads the wagon train by riding ahead alone on his horse".Kissinger later wrote that it was "the single most disastrous conversation I have ever had with any member of the press."
She has written several novels uncomfortably close to raw reality which have been bestsellers in Italy and widely translated. Fallaci, a fully emancipated and successful woman in the man's world of international political and battlefront journalism, has antagonized many feminists by her outright individualism, her championship of motherhood, and her idolization of heroic manhood. In journalism, her critics have felt that she has outraged the conventions of interviewing and reporting. As a novelist, she shatters the invisible diaphragm of literariness, and is accused of betraying, or simply failing literature.
Fallaci has twice received the St. Vincent Prize for journalism, as well as the Bancarella Prize (1971) for Nothing, and So Be It; Viareggio Prize (1979), for Un uomo: Romanzo; and Prix Antibes, 1993, for Inshallah. She received a D.Litt. from Columbia College (Chicago). She has lectured at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Harvard University, and Columbia University. Fallaci’s writings have been translated into 21 languages including English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Greek, Swedish, Polish, Croatian and Slovenian.
Fallaci was a life-long heavy smoker. She died on September 15, 2006 in her native Florence from breast cancer.
Fallaci began her journalistic career in her teens, becoming a special correspondent for the Italian paper Il mattino dell'Italia centrale in 1946. Since 1967 she worked as a war correspondent, in Vietnam, for the Indo-Pakistani War, in the Middle East and in South America. For many years, Fallaci was a special correspondent for the political magazine L'Europeo and wrote for a number of leading newspapers and Epoca magazine. During the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre prior to the 1968 Summer Olympics, Fallaci was shot three times, dragged down stairs by her hair, and left for dead by Mexican forces. According to The New Yorker, her former support of the student activists "devolved into a dislike of Mexicans":
The demonstrations by immigrants in the United States these past few months "disgust" her, especially when protesters displayed the Mexican flag. "I don't love the Mexicans," Fallaci said, invoking her nasty treatment at the hands of Mexican police in 1968. "If you hold a gun and say, 'Choose who is worse between the Muslims and the Mexicans,' I have a moment of hesitation. Then I choose the Muslims, because they have broken my balls."
In the late 1970s, she had an affair with the subject of one of her interviews, Alexandros Panagoulis, who had been a solitary figure in the Greek resistance against the 1967 dictatorship, having been captured, heavily tortured and imprisoned for his (unsuccessful) assassination attempt against dictator and ex-Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos. Panagoulis died in 1976, under controversial circumstances, in a road accident. Fallaci maintained that Panagoulis was assassinated by remnants of the Greek military junta and her book Un Uomo (A Man) was inspired by the life of Panagoulis.
During her 1972 interview with Henry Kissinger, Kissinger agreed that the Vietnam War was a "useless war" and compared himself to "the cowboy who leads the wagon train by riding ahead alone on his horse".Kissinger later wrote that it was "the single most disastrous conversation I have ever had with any member of the press."
She has written several novels uncomfortably close to raw reality which have been bestsellers in Italy and widely translated. Fallaci, a fully emancipated and successful woman in the man's world of international political and battlefront journalism, has antagonized many feminists by her outright individualism, her championship of motherhood, and her idolization of heroic manhood. In journalism, her critics have felt that she has outraged the conventions of interviewing and reporting. As a novelist, she shatters the invisible diaphragm of literariness, and is accused of betraying, or simply failing literature.
Fallaci has twice received the St. Vincent Prize for journalism, as well as the Bancarella Prize (1971) for Nothing, and So Be It; Viareggio Prize (1979), for Un uomo: Romanzo; and Prix Antibes, 1993, for Inshallah. She received a D.Litt. from Columbia College (Chicago). She has lectured at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Harvard University, and Columbia University. Fallaci’s writings have been translated into 21 languages including English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Greek, Swedish, Polish, Croatian and Slovenian.
Fallaci was a life-long heavy smoker. She died on September 15, 2006 in her native Florence from breast cancer.
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November 17, 2019
Il 20 luglio 1969 è stata una data importante in quanto si ricorda lo sbarco dell'uomo sulla Luna. In questo libro, Oriana Fallaci, grande giornalista e scrittrice, non si limita a raccontare quel giorno e quella data fatidica, ma va ben oltre. Inviata de L'Europeo, il giornale per il quale lavora, è inviata da Cape Kennedy e racconta quei momenti e i giorni che precedono la grande impresa. Oriana Fallaci entra dentro la storia.
La luna di Oriana sono articoli di giornale in cui la Fallaci intervista i protagonisti della grande impresa, non solo gli astronauti, ma anche scienziati, medici, dando di ognuno di loro uno spaccato umano e veritiero, raccontando prima il loro essere uomini. Si descrivono le emozioni, le difficoltà, ma anche le paure da ogni punto di vista.
Gli ultimi capitoli sono dedicati a due autori che hanno parlato dei viaggi sulla Luna in modo completamente diverso: da un lato Bradbury che ha raccontato di passeggiate sulla Luna e altri pianeti sino ad Asimov, da sempre contrario ai viaggi spaziali.
Gli articoli di giornale raccontano, descrivono la passione d uomini straordinari e della loro missione che ha cambiato il mondo. Articoli che permettono a chiunque legga di essere testimone e rivivere quel periodo.
La luna di Oriana sono articoli di giornale in cui la Fallaci intervista i protagonisti della grande impresa, non solo gli astronauti, ma anche scienziati, medici, dando di ognuno di loro uno spaccato umano e veritiero, raccontando prima il loro essere uomini. Si descrivono le emozioni, le difficoltà, ma anche le paure da ogni punto di vista.
Gli ultimi capitoli sono dedicati a due autori che hanno parlato dei viaggi sulla Luna in modo completamente diverso: da un lato Bradbury che ha raccontato di passeggiate sulla Luna e altri pianeti sino ad Asimov, da sempre contrario ai viaggi spaziali.
Gli articoli di giornale raccontano, descrivono la passione d uomini straordinari e della loro missione che ha cambiato il mondo. Articoli che permettono a chiunque legga di essere testimone e rivivere quel periodo.
January 18, 2021
Da leggere, giusta continuazione e ripasso di “Quel giorno sulla luna”
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