“Pasolini’s ideology, and, therefore, the contents of his poetry, is the conscience of contradictions that today engages the modern-day intellectual, or, perhaps, modern culture, between freedom and Marxism, between the voices of history, and, finally, between poetry and Marxism. This conscience of contradictions is what Pasolini, traditionally, calls anguish.” Geno Pampaloni, "L’Espresso". Nov. ‘57 Vicino…Read more Pier Paolo Pasolini: Vicino agli occhi…/Near my eyes…
Pier Paolo Pasolini
On fascism: Pertini, Bobbio, Bassani, Calvino, Pasolini, Gramsci, Calamandrei…
"The twenty years of fascism was not, as some unmindful wretch would like to think, twenty years of order and national greatness: it was twenty years of disgraceful illegality, humiliation, moral corrosion, daily suffocation, silent and subterranean moral disgregation." - Piero Calamandrei Sandro Pertini Il fascismo per me non può essere considerato una fede politica.…Read more On fascism: Pertini, Bobbio, Bassani, Calvino, Pasolini, Gramsci, Calamandrei…
Ciant da li ciampanis/ Chant of the church bells by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Ciant da li ciampanis Pier Paolo Pasolini Co la sera a si pièrt ta li fontanis il me país al è colòur smarít. Jo i soi lontàn, recuardi li so ranis, la luna, il trist tintinulà dai gris. A bat Rosari, pai pras al si scunís: jo i soj muàrt al ciant da li ciampanis.…Read more Ciant da li ciampanis/ Chant of the church bells by Pier Paolo Pasolini
La mancanza di richiesta di poesia/No request for poetry by Pier Paolo Pasolini
“Will you ask of me, unadorned corpse,/ to abandon this desperate/ passion of being in the world?” from Gramsci's ashes. LA MANCANZA DI RICHIESTA DI POESIA PIER PAOLO PASOLINI Come uno schiavo malato o una bestia vagavo per un mondo che mi era assegnato in sorte, con la lentezza che hanno i mostri…Read more La mancanza di richiesta di poesia/No request for poetry by Pier Paolo Pasolini
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