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The Rage and The Pride (Hardcover)
by Oriana Fallaci
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Author: Oriana Fallaci
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Pub. in: October, 2002
ISBN: 0847825043
Pages: 192
Measurements: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00980
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0847825042
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- Awards & Credential -
A million copies of this book sold in Italy where it still is at the bestsellers' top. Hundreds of thousands in France, in Germany, in Spain: the other countries where it has become the Number one Bestseller. |
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Fallaci, one of the greatest living journalists, broke a decades-long silence to write this blistering critique of European reaction to Sept. 11, of European political correctness, and of Islamofascism. The bulk of the book was typed in a white heat just weeks after the Sept. 11 massacre. It has earned her almost daily death threats. Fallaci, born in 1929 in Florence, Italy, is well respected within the news arena and was a war-correspondent in Vietnam, for the Indo-Pakistani War, the 1965 Hungarian insurrection, in the Middle East, in South America, the 1968 massacre in Mexico City and the 1970s Latin American upheavals. She was also seriously wounded in the Gulf War and was a special correspondent for L'Europeo, an Italian political magazine. She has written for numerous leading national newspapers as well as being the author of a great many books. Fallaci is well known for her outspoken interviews with such people as Sean Connery, Sammy Davis Jr, Yasir Arafat, Henry Kissinger, Ayatollah Khomeini and many, many others. She was also a resistance fighter during the Second World War.
Her picture is one you will recognize if you've read some of the Western thinkers who spoke up after Sept. 11 - Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens, V.S. Naipaul, to name three. They decried the Islamofascist attack on the core liberal values of Western civilization: freedom, equality, toleration. They reminded fellow critics of Western culture that the bulk of it was worth fighting for.
Her targets are the breed of European intellectuals she contemptuously calls "cicadas." She assails the crypto-Marxists who were so fond of the line about religion being the opiate of the masses only when it applied to the benign modern Christian churches of their own lands. She confronts the strident feminists who couldn't spare a word on behalf of brutalized, enslaved, mutilated Muslim women.
Fallaci, even more than the others, writes from the gut, with a furious energy that the book's title barely contains. Her prose takes you right back to the writing that was done in the immediate wake of the slaughter, when the stench still hung over New York City and recovery crews picked through "a brown mud that seems like ground coffee but in reality is organic matter: the remains of the bodies in a flash disintegrated, incinerated." It is a style that is characteristic and cannot be duplicated at any distance from the event.
Fallaci is no armchair observer of the Muslim world; she has traveled extensively in it and interviewed everyone from Khomeini to Arafat. She had seen into the rotten hearts of the people who plotted these attacks. And she knew what she wanted to say about them. She mocks the liberals of Europe who treat all the Muslim emigrants flooding their lands as "poor little things." And to the bin Ladens and their admirers, she is unsparingly blunt. She envisions the Muslim fanatics coming after the artwork of her beloved Florence, as they did to the Bamiyan Buddhas or the World Trade Center: "And should the poor-little-things destroy one of those treasures, only one, I swear: it is I who would become a holy-warrior. It is I who would become a murderer. So listen to me, you followers of a God who preaches an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. I was born in the war. I grew up in the war. About war I know a lot and believe me: I have more balls than your kamikazes who find the courage to die only when dying means killing thousands of people. Babies included. War you wanted, war you want? Good."
Having broken her silence, Fallaci takes the opportunity for delayed retorts to some of her critics. They are kept parenthetical - short but piercing. The kick at Jane Fonda is hilarious.
This English translation was done by the author. Her prose is straighforward, vigorous English, yet it is sprinkled with the quirks of one who speaks English as a second tongue. Writing about how in her imagination she still can see the Bamiyan Buddhas (the ones the Taliban dynamited): "I see them because about them I know all what I should." Yet even these grammatical lapses - writing English as though it were Italian - make "The Rage and the Pride" seem all the more vivid and furious.
- From quoting Douglas Harper
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Oriana Fallaci is Florentine and lives mostly in New York. In awarding her an honorary degree in Literature, the Dean of Chicago's Columbia College defined her "one of the most-read and best-loved writers in the world." As a war-correspondent she has covered the great majority of our time's conflicts: from Vietnam to the Middle East; from the 1956 Hungarian insurrection to the 1970s Latin America upheavals; from the 1968 massacre of Mexico City, where she was seriously wounded, to the Gulf War.
Her books, which include world-known novels, are translated in twenty-one languages and thirty countries. For this American edition she has personally translated The Rage and the Pride in English and added several pages concerning the United States.
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With The Rage and the Pride Oriana Fallaci breaks a ten year silence. The silence she kept until September 11's apocalypse in her Manhattan house. She breaks it with a deafening noise. In Europe this book has caused and causes a turmoil never registered in decades. Polemics, discussion, debates, hearty consents and praises, wild attacks. And a million copies sold in Italy where it still is at the bestsellers' top. Hundreds of thousands in France, in Germany, in Spain: the other countries where it has become the Number one Bestseller. Around a dozen translations will soon appear.
With her well-known courage Oriana Fallaci faces the themes unchained by the Islamic terrorism: the contrast and, in her opinion, incompatibility between the Islamic world and the Western world; the global reality of the Jihad and the lack of response, the lenience of the West. With her brutal sincerity she hurls pitiless accusations, vehement invectives, and denounces the uncomfortable truths that all of us know but never dare to express. With her rigorous logic, lucidity of mind, she defends our culture and blames what she calls our blindness, our deafness, our masochism, the conformism and the arrogance of the Politically Correct. With the poetry of a prophet like a modern Cassandra she says it in the form of a letter addressed to all of us.
The text is enriched by a dramatic preface in which Oriana Fallaci reveals how The Rage and the Pride was born, grew up, and detachedly calls it "my small book." In addition, a preface in which she tells significant episodes of her extraordinary life and explains her unreachable isolation, her demanding and inflexible choices. Because of this too, what she calls "my small book" is in reality a great book. A precious book, a book that shakes our conscience. It is also the portrait of a soul. Her soul. No doubt it will remain as a thorn pierced inside our brains and our hearts.
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Seth J. Frantzman (MSL quote), Israel
<2007-05-10 00:00>
The Rage and the Pride is the bible for all of those who feel that Islam is the greatest threat to the world since Communism. In many ways one can see the correctness in this by analysing the major movements in the 20th century that have embroiled America in war. The Fascists so threatened the world that America was forced to fight them. The Communists so threatened global civilization that the Americans were forced to fight them. Most recently Islam now threatens western and global civilizations and now America is fighting them.
Fallaci, in her small book, explains to us the evils of Islam. She describes the horrors forced upon women and the visciousness with which Fundamentalists treat their women(One of the terrorists siad he didnt want women at his funeral, especially not the most tainted women, Pregnant women).Fallaci explains how viscious Islam destroyed the Buddhist statues in Afghanistan. She condemns the Europeans, who say they want diversity, and use diversity as an excuse to allow Islam to infiltrate europe, turn European cities into bazarrs and create human rights abuses in the very countries that espouse to be the beacons of human rights and exceptance. Just look to the murder of the great Pim Fortyn or the murder of the Arab girl in Norway for speaking her beliefs and marrying a white man. Fallaci shows how complasent Europeans have become and how just like the British appeased the fascists Europe now appeases Islam at its own risk of being overrun. Fallaci's passion makes one want to join her to defend the Ponte Vacchio(saved from the Nazis) from the coming wave of Islamic terror and save the nude statue of David(or painting of venus), which will certainly be burkahized once Islam takes over Europe. Fallacis book should be read and read again. Her enemies are attempting to silence her in Europe. In America she is being threatened with death. Like the Germans who opposed Hitler we must heed her words and draw our swords to the coming threat. Fallaci, an eminent athiest, understands the threat against Christian Europe. She understands that the Pope must awake from his appeasement and stop applogizing and instead save Christendom from Islamic domination. ALready Islam has whiped out the Sikhs of Punjab, the Armenians of Turkey and the Christians of Iraq, Lebanese Catholics are threatened with genocide. How long must we submit to Islamic terror until we draw our swords and with the superiority of our weapons strike back against the tidal wave of Islamic immigration that has taken Europe by storm. Fallaci calls us to wake up, she is the joan of arc of the western world asking us to awake in Chhristendoms darkest hour since Charles Martel defeated the Islamic hordes in the 10th century. |
Maximilian (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-10 00:00>
It is, without a doubt, not the definitive, thorough, detailed work of a political analyst. But it is a sermon that reaches heart and soul, and when thought over for a few days, permeates the mind. There is no question that this book must be read, whether you believe yourself to be liberal or conservative or any other meaningless distinction. The question is: are you brave enough to draw the consequences? Or are you cowardly enough to ignore what not standing up to THEM will entail? In this question, Fallaci is, like Hemingway or Any Rand, an author who will separate the wheat from the chaff. Read it. It's one of your only chances at seeing, especially if you are one of those Euro-philes that has no clue that Europe itself is part of the problem (this coming from a European). |
A reader (MSL quote), India
<2007-05-10 00:00>
This is the written word that many of us who lived in the Middle East saw, heard and felt every day, but could not say becauase we feared torture. Ms. Fallaci has been in the same countries and seen the same fear. Now in America, she has taken the challenge to speak a harsh truth about the direction of hate and those who yield that hate. Now that I no longer live in that fear, I use words like Ms. Fallaci's to bolster the courage to change my world and the lives of those around me. You don't have to follow this book blindly, but you can derive simple truths that you can implement in your daily life. Read this and change your lives too. Or those who hate us will change it for us. |
S. A. Labbe (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-10 00:00>
As an American Christian living in Turkey, a secular Muslim country, I still found that the book struck unbelievably close to my adopted "home." The part that I will always carry with me is the idea that we are under no obligation to accord boundless respect to those (i.e. Islamists) who have absolutely zero respect for us. Other reviewers express misgivings about the way Fallaci seems to paint all Muslims with the same Islamist brush, but I must say they only have themselves to blame: there seems to be no mechanism whatsoever in Islamic cultures for self-examination and self-criticism, whereas they can spin foreign conspiracy theories for their woes until the end of time.
A note: I read the book in the original Italian, which is not my first language, and I still could not put it down and read it one long day. A must read.
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