ABSTRACT
The readers, the actual interlocutors to whom it is dedicated, remain invisible in the background, in keeping with the normal convention of publication. As, in varying degrees, in Oriana Fallaci's novels and reportage or quasi-reportage narratives, so too in the invective of her response to atrocities of September nth, 2001, autobiographical self-projection, while not being the purported aim of the discourse, is one of its strategic components. Fallaci's volume publication of La rabbia e l'orgoglio, which appeared two and a half months later, on 12 December, makes structurally explicit the double deixis of the second person, internally addressed to Ferruccio Ve Bortoli but externally to the public at large. The reactions in Italy to Fallaci's outburst have been varied. Politicians have evaded the issue raised by Fallaci by dismissing that outburst as over-emotional. The degree and kind of attention that should be given in the Western world to Fallaci's war-cry is a matter of opinion and judgement, but also responsibility.
