Pasolini’s Ironic Recantation The ‘Abiura dalla Trilogia della vita’
If theTrilogia della vitais concerned with a force of the past capable of displacing the present – capable, that is, of preventing a complete ‘adaptation’ to the present – then Pasolini’s ‘Abiura’ (abjuration or recantation) seems rather dramatic in its assertion of the impossibility of this very pr...
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Published in | Allegories of Contamination p. 82 |
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Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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Canada
University of Toronto Press
05.02.1996
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Summary: | If theTrilogia della vitais concerned with a force of the past capable of displacing the present – capable, that is, of preventing a complete ‘adaptation’ to the present – then Pasolini’s ‘Abiura’ (abjuration or recantation) seems rather dramatic in its assertion of the impossibility of this very project. For in this short recantation, written while he was working on Said and just months before his murder in November 1975, Pasolini appears to admit a sort of ‘defeat’: he will concede to his critics that his nostalgia for a lost sexual innocence, a time before repression, was idealistic and |
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ISBN: | 9780802072191 0802072194 |