by Oriana Fallaci · Folio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253030225
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«Un homme» is the novel by Oriana Fallaci, published in paperback (505 pages, in French).
The author recreates her relationship with Alexandros Panagoulis, a Greek poet and resistance fighter who attempted to kill dictator George Papadopoulos. Between biography and novel, she portrays a man who became a legend in his lifetime and maintains he was killed by a conspiracy; it is an indictment against totalitarianism and a funeral song for freedom.
The novel was originally published in Italian in 1979 as «Un uomo»; this French paperback edition appeared in 1981.
A work for readers interested in the dictatorship of the Colonels and in political and biographical fiction.
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working-class speech. In subsequent novels such as Death on the Installment Plan (1936), Guignol's Band (1944) and Castle to Castle (1957), Céline further developed an innovative and distinctive literary style. Maurice Nadeau wrote: "What Joyce did for the English language...what the surrealists attempted to do for the French language, Céline achieved effortlessly and on a vast scale."
