Pier Paolo Pasolini Boeken

In Danger reveals the literary life of internationally renowned filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Exploring themes of sex, death, and political passion, the narrative delves into the complexities of human emotions and societal issues. The author reflects on personal experiences and broader cultural contexts, weaving an elegiac tone throughout. This introspective journey invites readers to contemplate the intertwining of personal desires and collective struggles, offering a poignant examination of life's profound moments.

Pier Paolo Pasolini ist einer der herausragenden und schillerndsten Protagonisten des intellektuellen Europa in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Als Autor von Gedichten in der Sprache seiner friaulischen Heimat, von Romanen und theoretischen Aufsätzen, als Regisseur Aufsehen erregender Filme, aber auch als Zeichner und Maler richtete sich sein Blick in erster Linie auf zeitlose, archaische Themen: das Schicksal des Menschen, das bäuerliche Leben, die Religion, die Sexualität, den Tod. Dabei bewegte er sich stets außerhalb jeder Normalität, fand Bilder von außergewöhnlicher Klarheit und Schärfe und wurde dabei zum größten Provokateur der italienischen Gesellschaft. Anlässlich seines 30. Todestages gibt der Band anhand seiner Schriften, Filme, Zeichnungen und Malerei Einblick in Pasolinis Wertvorstellungen und Ideale. Einen der Ausgangspunkte bildet die These, dass Pasolinis Kunstverständnis und seine Weltsicht schon früh die Idee eines gewaltsamen Todes in sich trugen, den er schließlich bewusst gesucht haben könnte, um durch ihn die Einheit von Leben und Werk herzustellen. (Deutsche Ausgabe erhältlich ISBN 3-7757-1632-7) Ausstellung: Pinakothek der Moderne, München 17.11.2005-5.2.2006

Presents Pasolini's fictional account of life in the brutal slums of 1950s Rome.

Set against the backdrop of 1960s Italy, this work serves as a powerful critique of contemporary society and the intelligentsia. Pasolini reflects on the decline of the expressive Italian language, contrasting it with a stark, technological mode of communication. In this reinterpretation of Dante's Commedia, he places two versions of himself in the roles of the pilgrim and guide, navigating an underworld that mirrors his own disillusionment and the fading civic ideals he once championed.

Written as a screenplay, this is sort of a preliminary text that delves in decolonization and postcolonialism (in Africa), two burning areas of interests in our contemporary world.

Now in paperback, a collection of the legendary filmmaker's short fiction and nonfiction from 1950 to 1966, in which we see the machinations of the creative mind in post-World War II Rome. In a portrait of the city at once poignant and intimate, we find artistic witness to the customs, dialect, squalor, and beauty of the ancient imperial capital that has succumbed to modern warfare, marginalization, and mass culture. The sketches portray the impoverished masses that Pasolini calls "the sub-proletariat," those who live under Third World conditions and for whom simple pleasures, such as a blue sweater in a storefront window, are completely out of reach. Pasolini's art develops throughout the works collected here, from his early lyricism to tragicomic outlines for screenplays, and finally to the maturation of his Neo-realism in eight chronicles on the shantytowns of Rome. The pieces in this collection were all published in Italian journals and newspapers, and then later edited by Walter Siti in the original Italian edition.

This tale about seduction, obsession, family, and the confines of capitalism is one of director Pier Paolo Pasolini's most fascinating creations, based on his transcendent film of the same name. Theorem is the most enigmatic of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s four novels. The book started as a poem and took shape both as a work of fiction and a film, also called Theorem, released the same year. In short prose chapters interspersed with stark passages of poetry, Pasolini tells a story of transfiguration and trauma. To the suburban mansion of a prosperous Milanese businessman comes a mysterious and beautiful young man who invites himself to stay. From the beginning he exercises a strange fascination on the inhabitants of the house, and soon everyone, from the busy father to the frustrated mother, from the yearning daughter to the weak-willed son to the housemaid from the country, has fallen in love with him. Then, as mysteriously as he appeared, the infatuating young man departs. How will these people he has touched so deeply do without him? Is there a passage out of the spiritual desert of modern capitalism into a new awakening, both of the senses and of the soul? Only questions remain at the end of a book that is at once a bedroom comedy, a political novel, and a religious parable.

My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini imagines the Italian filmmaker and writer returning to the Roman homosexual hustlers he knew, in a "scathing commentary on false values in art" (The Hartford Courant).