Posted on 08/06/2004 12:36:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
ROME (AP) - Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist known for ruthlessly grilling her subjects, says she detests interviews but has granted one herself - to herself - because she is dying of cancer.
The Milan daily Corriere della Sera published the slim volume, "Oriana Fallaci Interviews Oriana Fallaci," as a supplement to its newspaper Friday.
In the work, Fallaci, 74, asks herself why she agreed to the interview.
"Because death is on my back. Medicine has issued the sentence: 'Lady, you cannot get better. You won't get better,'" is the reply.
Fallaci's battle with cancer began some 11 years ago.
She writes that she stopped taking care of herself, including having medical tests and seeing oncologists, on Sept. 11, 2001, the day of the terror attacks against the United States.
Fallaci said she needed to spend all her time writing and translating two books that have since been published and which, in her typically blunt style, reflect scathingly on society, including the differences between Christian and Islamic culture.
The second of the two, "The Strength of Reason," came out this spring. In it, Fallaci accuses the Roman Catholic Church of being too weak before the Muslim world, and Europe of selling itself to Islam "like a prostitute."
Two years earlier, her best-selling essay "The Rage and The Pride" drew accusations that Fallaci was inciting hatred against Muslims.
In her work published Friday, Fallaci, a former war correspondent, says, "The West, Europe, Italy, is sicker than I am."
Interviewing herself, Fallaci responds that she "detests" interviews, including those of the "so-called powerful of the Earth."
"To be good, an interview has to stick itself into, sink into, the heart of the interviewee. ... In this I have always seen an act of violence, of cruelty."
Subjects of her interviews would unlikely disagree. Among those who expressed amazement over her relentless style is Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state.
Sounds like I'll have to put her books on my "must read" list.
yeah,, but they got one helluva'n art collection. ;-)
Her efforts, though probably small in the "grand scheme of things," will be seen as virtuous.
She is already forgiven for whatever it might be she needs forgiveness for, since God loves us, and that is proven by the sacrifice of our Lord.
So true.
Actually I believe she is an atheist. She happens to find Christianity more beautiful and productive than that of the Muslims. Who knows now though, perhaps her situation has changed her attitude towards the Lord.
I know this isn't conventional, but I firmly believe that God loves the "lost" as well, and that Christ's death and resurrection was meant as proof for all peoples salvation, not just the ones that attend the "right" church or make the right magic gestures (ooooo I'm going to get it now).
The reason that it's important for us to believe in Christ is to convince US, not to convince God. He's already made up his mind. We have to overcome our guilt at where we have failed Him. Believing in Christ's message makes that easier FOR US, and doesn't affect God's judgment of us in the least.
OK. I admit it. I'm doomed.
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