The death of Oriana Fallaci

Oriana Fallaci has died aged 77 on September 15th in Florence, her home town. Journalist and war reporter at the time of the Vietnam War, she was known around the world for her vehement essays that provoked criticism the world over. The journalist and philosopher Giancarlo Bosetti looks back on the polemics that she triggered-off. "Invective force was one of the secrets of her books' success. She declared war not only on Islamic terrorism, but on Muslim religion itself and on immigrants in themselves ... . Oriana Fallaci pushed subjective writing to its extreme. Subjective in the sense of the new journalism of Norman Mailer, Truman Capote or Tom Wolf, in the vein of writing that plunges the reader into the heart of the author's positions, into his/her mind ...".

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