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• Title:
  “The Golden Age of Life”. Oriana Fallaci in Her Old Age
• Creator:
  Tichoniuk-Wawrowicz, Ewa
• Description:
  From Tithonus to the Struldbrugs of Swift, the old age is seen as a phase of decline, of decay, of exclusion from active life, which generates conditions of need. Senility can become even an influencing discrimination: in 1969 Robert Butler coined the term ageism and developed the theory of the phenomenon. So it is very surprising to see the optimism of Oriana Fallaci who observed: «They are fools those who refuse [the old age] and in order to refuse it they make the facelift, they dress up like a twenty-yearold, they cheat on age. Silly and ungrateful. […] The oldness is a beautiful age. The golden age of Life» [IA 149-150]. The tone marvels even more if you think about the cancer against which the Florentine journalist fought for years. It therefore seems interesting to analyze the reason for such serenity, despite the thanatic shadow.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2018 Ewa Tichoniuk-Wawrowicz
• Date:
  2018.11.22
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Italian
• Source:
  Studia Romanica Posnaniensia; Vol. 45 No. 3 (2018): Il femminile nella letteratura italiana; 49-58;
  Studia Romanica Posnaniensia; Tom 45 Nr 3 (2018): Il femminile nella letteratura italiana; 49-58;
  2084-4158;
  0137-2475
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/srp/article/view/16583/16418
• Subject:
  Italian narrative;
  Oriana Fallaci;
  old age;
  illness;
  motherhood
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/srp/article/view/16583
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text