Suzanne

“The interview gives us access not to the experience but to a verbal rendition of the memory of that experience, generated by the presence of the interviewer.”
― Alessandro Portelli

“An inter/view is an exchange of gazes, persons both seeing and listening to each other.”
― Alessandro Portelli

“The inter- view is about the past—like all other historical sources, it provides us with factual information that can be verified and critically scrutinized—but is of the present...These are living voices, voices that speak with us now”
― Alessandro Portelli

“it is important that we enter the interview with a great degree of flexibility, ready not only to accept the narrator’s agenda but also to modify our own.”
― Alessandro Portelli