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A Man: A Novel
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The bestseller—translated and sold in nineteen countries—that brought Oriana Fallaci world success
Published for the first time in 1979 by Rizzoli, A Man is a real-life, passionate novel, which tells the story of Alekos Panagulis, hero of the Greek Resistance and partner of Oriana. On May 1, 1976, Alexandros Panagulis, known as Alekos, the lonely hero of the Greek riot against tyranny and power, dies tragically in a suspicious car crash. For his funeral, millions of people crowd the streets of Athens screaming “Zi, zi, zi! Live, live, live”. This is the opening scene of A Man—and the final scene in the life of Alekos and of his love story with Oriana.
The narration goes back some years, and the reader relives the breakdown of Alekos’s relationship with Oriana, starting with his attempt to kill the tyrant Papadopulos and his consequent arrest. Balancing romance and reportage, Fallaci reports on Alekos’s personal fight against tyranny and his desperate attempt to escape his inevitable arrest. Alekos became a real hero for the Greek population and the government couldn’t kill him without generating suspicion from the public. The government built him a prison called “Boiati,” where he survived tremendous torture, hunger strikes, and terrible sanitary conditions. After his release, Fallaci met and interviewed him. They fell in love and lived years of love, obsession, and madness, all recounted in this extraordinary book. The story is about their strong and deep love, intertwined with the struggle of this Greek tragedy’s hero, who desperately looked for freedom and who, in the end, was just … a man.
Published for the first time in 1979 by Rizzoli, A Man is a real-life, passionate novel, which tells the story of Alekos Panagulis, hero of the Greek Resistance and partner of Oriana. On May 1, 1976, Alexandros Panagulis, known as Alekos, the lonely hero of the Greek riot against tyranny and power, dies tragically in a suspicious car crash. For his funeral, millions of people crowd the streets of Athens screaming “Zi, zi, zi! Live, live, live”. This is the opening scene of A Man—and the final scene in the life of Alekos and of his love story with Oriana.
The narration goes back some years, and the reader relives the breakdown of Alekos’s relationship with Oriana, starting with his attempt to kill the tyrant Papadopulos and his consequent arrest. Balancing romance and reportage, Fallaci reports on Alekos’s personal fight against tyranny and his desperate attempt to escape his inevitable arrest. Alekos became a real hero for the Greek population and the government couldn’t kill him without generating suspicion from the public. The government built him a prison called “Boiati,” where he survived tremendous torture, hunger strikes, and terrible sanitary conditions. After his release, Fallaci met and interviewed him. They fell in love and lived years of love, obsession, and madness, all recounted in this extraordinary book. The story is about their strong and deep love, intertwined with the struggle of this Greek tragedy’s hero, who desperately looked for freedom and who, in the end, was just … a man.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A gift from a French penpal, the first "brutal" book I read (in my 20's). With Portugal itself coming out of an almost 50-years dictatorship in 1974, I could easily relate to the protagonist's struggle against fascist Greece. But the torture passages are too graphic and you have to be in the mood. A powerful book. And my first contact with the sounds of the Greek language (through the numerous Greek untranslated transcriptions) - so much so that one phrase remained in my mind: "s'agapo tora ke ta s'agapo pentote" - something like "I love you now and forever".
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a great book, i think everyone should read it
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'll underscore the sentiment to not let Fallaci's later writings about Islam dissuade you from reading this work. Fallaci was a terror to powerful dictatorial forces in both her life and her writing. A MAN is a masterpiece of political fiction and I want to underscore that word: political. A combination of biography, autobiography, and fiction (and the boundaries aren't clear) this screed rips her soul open and exposes itself to the reader. It's a political story, and she writes with political intent and does so with a unique ferocity. One of the other reviewers says that they received a copy from her during student strikes in Poland (I am jealous) and that it changed their life. Me too. My daughter is named after Oriana Fallaci.