Oriana e i colonnelli: cultura di massa e dittatura greca nell’Italia degli anni Settanta

• Main Author: Alessandro Terreni
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: LED - Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto 2021-07-01
• Series: Lingue Culture Mediazioni
• Subjects: colonels; fallaci; mass culture; panagulis; seventies.
• Online Access: https://www.ledonline.it/index.php/LCM-Journal/article/view/2352

In 1979 Oriana Fallaci published Un uomo, an autobiographical novel in which she tells her love story with Alexandros Panagulis, hero of the resistance to the regime of the Greek colonels. The book has a resounding and lasting success with the public, thanks to the narrative, stylistic and ideological peculiarities widely illustrated by Vittorio Spinazzola, Giovanna Rosa and Bruno Pischedda. Beyond its literary prerogatives, the success of the work is also linked to the author’s ability to grasp a series of suggestions already floating on the various levels of the Italian collective imagination since the end of the Sixties, and to express them with formidable effectiveness. In addition to literature, in fact, music, cinema and TV had also drawn on and spread different material from the ambiguous fascination exercised by the Greek colonels on Italian public opinion.