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Pier Paolo Pasolini
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SEX, DEATH, POLITICAI
PASSION, THESE ARE THE SIMPLE OBJECTS TO WHICH I GIVE MY ELEGIAC HEART
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975),
who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also thè
most outspoken and originai Italian writer of his generation, the author
of distinguished and con-troversial novels and plays, political and literary
criticism, and, above all, poetry. His poems are widely considered the
most important contribution to Italian literature since Montale and, along
with the work of Bertolt Brecht and Pablo Neruda, represent the most powerful
political poetry of the century. This dual-language book presents his major
poems as well as an autobiographical essay, which together make for an
outstanding introduction to Pasolini's exceptional gifts as a poet.
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Pasolini seems to me indisputably
the most remarkable figure to have emerged in Italian arts and letters
since the Second World War. Whatever he did, once he did it, had the quality
of seeming necessary. His poetry is an important part of his passionate,
proud, historically vulnerable body of work, a work in and with history;
and of the tragic itinerary of his sensibility.
Susan Sontag
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The publication of a volume
of translations by Norman MacAfee of Pasolini's best poems reminds us of
what an extraordinary man he was. Of his copious writings, his poetry seems
most likely to endure.... translated now with clarity, ingenuity, and fidelity
by Norman MacAfee.
Edmund White,
The New York Times Book Review
Writer and film-maker Pier Paolo
Pasolini spent most life in direct confrontation with the society that
produced and later rejected him. His artistic production testifies to the
struggle which he lived as he consistently threw his body into the fray
as an instrument for social justice.
The Savage Father,
one of Pasolini's least known books, is one of his most important challenges
to himself and to the world. The book pits assumed Western cultural supremacy
against the battle for Africa's freedom and self-assertion.
The Savage Father
offers a deep analysis of the internal struggles between the colonizer
and the colonized, as well as showing us the externalized conditioning
to which both are prey.
"Written as a screenplay,
The
Savage Father can also be viewed as Pasolini's examination of his own
theoretical assertions about film and literature. The real power of this
text resides in its being a sort of preliminary work on de-colonization
and post-colonialism, two areas of burning interest in our contemporary
world."
Pasquale Verdicchio
[Pasquale Verdicchio is
also a poet and a nonfiction writer.]
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His life
Alive in the memory
Pasolini's works
The Pier Paolo Pasolini
Study Center
in Casarsa della Delizia
(Italy)
Books and VHS tapes;
a complete
bibliography in Usa;
a filmography
Salò or The 120
Days of Sodom,
The Institute of Contemporary
Arts
in London hosted a two-day
event
around Salò,
with screenings and
discussion about the film
Intelligence will never
have much value...
Books
Pasolini's Photo Gallery
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