Suzanne

“The inter- view is about the past—like all other historical sources, it provides us with factual information that can be verified and critically scrutinized—but is of the present...These are living voices, voices that speak with us now”
― Alessandro Portelli

“An interview, then, is a moment in a relationship between times: the time of the events, the time of the telling, and, when we factor in the archive, the time of listening.”
― Alessandro Portelli

“it is important that we enter the interview with a great degree of flexibility, ready not only to accept the narrator’s agenda but also to modify our own.”
― Alessandro Portelli

“The interview gives us access not to the experience but to a verbal rendition of the memory of that experience, generated by the presence of the interviewer.”
― Alessandro Portelli