![]() The one thing I would fault is Fallaci's depiction of the use of a sleep-gas gun in the final chase scene I question its effectiveness under the stated conditions. I was not counting typos I recall just one a missing article. Then you can ask yourself, as I do, where in this tale does fiction end and reality begin. Read it for that it will repay the effort.īut I strongly recommend that you first look up a hard-cover 2 copy of Fallaci's Interview with History and read the chapter on the real Alexandros Panagoulis. What it does have is an honest portrayal of one honest man. ![]() This is not a pleasant story it has no happy ending. Fallaci writes of his struggle with passion but no sentimentality, in prose that combines toughness and grace. But it sometimes happens that heroes lament the passing of their times of trial and great privation, chafe at the relative safety and comfort which passage through those trials has earned them, become overbearing and hard to live with. Achieving this result amid the conflicting drives of human natures is a question of balance, and balance of course requires compromise. From it flow the fairest distribution of resources, the maximum flexibility in solving problems, the greatest general happiness. In the long struggle to better the human condition, which engages all of us to the degree determined by our personal gifts, personal freedom is the proper guidestar. Only in his case it is the love of personal freedom. Alexandros Panagoulis was a Greek politician and poet, who actively participated against the Greek military junta, also known as the Regime of the Colonels. ![]() But Panagoulis too is ruled by something beyond principle. Her latest work is about her former lover Alexandros Panagoulis, infamous for an attempt to assassinate a Greek dictator. Italian journalist and novelist Oriana Fallaci is known for her interviews with controversial political figures. His career exemplifies the overarching principle that for most people there are no overarching principles their lives are ruled, their courses determined, by love of comfort, love of power, or by fear. NovemOrianna Fallaci On Alexandros Panagoulis. It tells how Panagoulis tries and ultimately fails to adapt himself to the banalities and compromises of normal life. The remainder of the book, Parts 2 through 6, clearly is pure invention. So much is the backbone of Part 1, though I suspect that some of the episodes: the escapes and recaptures, the dialogs with prison commandants and other officials, the tricks played on dumb guards, were invented. Bigarren Mundu Gerran partisanoa izan zen, eta ondoren kazetari karrera arrakastatsua garatu zuen. Afterward he did become Oriana's friend, perhaps her lover. Oriana Fallaci (Florentzia, Italia, 1929ko ekainaren 29a - Florentzia, 2006ko irailaren 15a) kazetari, idazle eta elkarrizketatzaile politikoa izan zen. He did try to murder George Papadopoulos, dictator of Greece, with a bomb he was caught, imprisoned, tortured, pardoned after five years. Indeed, the hero of this novel, Alexandros Panagoulis, did exist. There is this about Oriana Fallaci's writing: Such verisimilitude does it possess that the fiction - such as this novel - often feels like a description of actual events.
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