Oriana Fallaci: The Woman and the Myth - Softcover

Arico, Santo L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809330059 ISBN 13: 9780809330058

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Internationally acclaimed as a journalist, war correspondent, interviewer, and novelist, Oriana Fallaci’s public persona reached almost mythic proportions. It is a myth Fallaci herself created, according to Santo L. Aricò, who probes the psychological forces that motivated one of the twentieth century’s most famous and successful women writers.

Using his own extensive interviews with the writer, Aricò maps out Fallaci’s journey through life, paying particular attention to her ongoing and painstaking attempts to establish her own mythical status. He first examines her career as a literary journalist, emphasizing the high quality of her writing. From there, he concentrates on how Fallaci’s personal image began to emerge in her writings, as well as the way in which, through her powerful narratives, she catapulted herself into the public eye as her own main character.

About this title

About the Author:

Santo L. Aricò is a professor of French and Italian at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Rousseau’s Art of Persuasion in “La Nouvelle Héloïse” and the editor of Contemporary Women Writers in Italy: A Modern Renaissance.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0809330059
• ISBN 13: 9780809330058
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288