Interview with History (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Oriana Fallaci
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, Journalism
- Subjects: Dictators, Journalism or journalists, Power, personal or social, Politics, Socialism, Feminism, Honesty, Oppression, Vietnam War, Truth, Politicians, Diplomacy or diplomats, Heads of state, Interviewing
Form and Content
A regular contributor to the Italian news magazine L’Europeo and a successful free-lance journalist, novelist, and essayist, Oriana Fallaci became famous primarily as one of the most original and controversial interviewers of her time. The essence of her style is captured in Interview with History (translated into English by John Shepley and published in the United States in 1976), her best-known work of journalism. It might be more accurate, however, to call the genre in which she works “contemporary history,” a term she herself uses in...
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