by Oriana Fallaci · Biblioteca universale Rizzoli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817134590
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«Se il sole muore» is Oriana Fallaci's journalistic essay, published by Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli in paperback (497 pages, in Italian).
It reconstructs Oriana Fallaci's encounters with NASA astronauts and scientists before the first trip to the Moon, in a late-1960s Los Angeles. Through interviews, she asks whether space conquest is necessary progress or a reckless gesture, and shows the clash between faith in technology and fear.
It belongs to the BUR Saggi e documenti collection (no. 459); the edition is from 1984 and the work originally appeared in 1965.
For those interested in space exploration, Fallaci's narrative journalism, and the cultural history of the 1960s.
Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist and author. As a teenager she joined the Italian resistance movement during World War II, and later had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her "long, aggressive and revealing interviews" with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. She received various prizes for her work as a journalist and later wrote a number of best selling books.
