MEETING OF 19 FEBRUARY
heated discussion on:
" A Hat Full of Cherries "
Oriana Fallaci published by Rizzoli.
many conflicting opinions on the work's posthumous Oriana Fallaci that belongs to the genre of family saga, as she wrote on the cover of the folder of the original manuscript came to the heirs, where has planted a lot of imagination on a towel arrivatole oral tradition from their parents, uncles, grandparents, and she turned into a novel with the help of a long, difficult and painstaking search of accurate biographical data on his ancestors to enable it to reconstruct the family tree all the way up to about mid-1700.
The result is there to see, indeed to read: in spite of eight hundred pages to get to the last page in one go. Any moments of pause or decline are sidelined because the pace and ability to captivate the reader prevail.
The result is there to see, indeed to read: in spite of eight hundred pages to get to the last page in one go. Any moments of pause or decline are sidelined because the pace and ability to captivate the reader prevail.
Fallaci is not classified among historians, but we must recognize that events in personal grandparents, great grandparents, grandparents, arcavoli of OF have the right to tell almost three centuries of history, Italic, and not just so captivating, making them easy to remember and difficult parts less than when we were forced to study at school.
His books have always been discussed and this is no exception. Have often been inspired by personal experiences or news stories from its intimate, as was the case with "A man " and " Letter to a Child Never Born .
His books have always been discussed and this is no exception. Have often been inspired by personal experiences or news stories from its intimate, as was the case with "A man " and " Letter to a Child Never Born .
great journalist, one of the few women in this profession in years of absolute male monopoly, he was admired throughout the world. The event of September 11 2001 that shocked the U.S. and the West, gave it to OF a position of absolute intransigence against the Islamic culture, the last of his writings caused controversy and debate, including processes, so much so that some of his unconditional admirers lined up on opposite sides . How can we forget the exchange of letters with Tiziano Terzani?
disease that made her suffer in recent years - died in 2006 - and the attack on the Twin Towers have certainly prevented the conclusion of the immense personal work begun in 1990 (and perhaps earlier).
disease that made her suffer in recent years - died in 2006 - and the attack on the Twin Towers have certainly prevented the conclusion of the immense personal work begun in 1990 (and perhaps earlier).
Oriana Fallaci invites us to reflect: we must be able to live with death, because we live knowing that we must die, without death there would be - paradoxically - their lives.
The shape and style, not always uniformly affected by the lack of a final draft that, for the most careful readers, seemed fairly obvious, but not to an unacceptable degree.
The shape and style, not always uniformly affected by the lack of a final draft that, for the most careful readers, seemed fairly obvious, but not to an unacceptable degree.
voices in dissonance talked about commercial publishing operation, display of confusion: the group is reading this too. Everyone says their own, while respecting dell'opinone of others, collective harmony, each time with the desire and conviction to find himself going a month later for a new stimulating debate, as will occur in:
next meeting of March 17
when we read: "THE ROAD" by Cormac McCarthy - publisher Einaudi
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