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Stories from the City of God
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.
Exit strategy
"Come se ne esce?" è la domanda che risuona più spesso in questi anni. Non solo dalla crisi economica ma dalla paralisi politica e istituzionale, e anche da quella vocazione al consumo superfluo e al piacere pronto-cassa che dopo aver caratterizzato gli anni ruggenti del berlusconismo rischia ora di lasciare sul campo tanti smarriti e depressi. Ogni mutamento profondo presuppone una conversione e un rimescolamento nella gerarchia dei desideri. In questo romanzo che seziona i giorni come un diario, Siti affronta la questione partendo da un'esperienza personale: racconta la propria uscita da un'ossessione erotica che sembrava eterna, e la propria conversione a qualcosa che sembra rappresenta...
Rome: Continuing Encounters between Past and Present
Few other cities can compare with Rome's history of continuous habitation, nor with the survival of so many different epochs in its present. This volume explores how the city's past has shaped the way in which Rome has been built, rebuilt, represented and imagined throughout its history. Bringing together scholars from the disciplines of architectural history, urban studies, art history, archaeology and film studies, this book comprises a series of studies on the evolution of the city of Rome and the ways in which it has represented and reconfigured itself from the medieval period to the present day. Moving from material appropriations such as spolia in the medieval period, through the carto...
The Scandal of Self-contradiction
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was both a writer and filmmaker deeply rooted in European culture, as well as an intellectual who moved between different traditions, identities and positions. Early on he looked to Africa and Asia for possible alternatives to the hegemony of Western Neocapitalism and Consumerism, and in his hands the Greek and Judeo-Christian Classics morphed into unsettling multistable figures constantly shifting between West and East, North and South, the present and the past, rationality and myth, identity and otherness. The contributions in this volume, which belong to different intellectual and disciplinary fields, are bound together by a fascination for Pasolini's ability to recognize contradictions, to intensify and multiply them, as well as to make them aesthetically and politically productive. What emerges is a "euro-eccentric" and multifaceted Pasolini of great interest for the present.
Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic
This book examines the many ways in which anger and indignation shape authorial intentions and determine the products of contemporary Italian artists.
Pound and Pasolini
In October 1967, Pier Paolo Pasolini travelled to Venice to interview Ezra Pound for broadcast on national television. One a lifelong Marxist, the other a former propagandist for the Fascist regime, their encounter was billed as a clash of opposites. But what do these poets share? And what can they tell us about the poetics and politics of the twentieth century? This book reads one by way of the other, aligning their engagement with different temporalities and traditions, polities and geographies, languages and forms, evoked as utopian alternatives to the cultural and political crises of capitalist modernity. Part literary history, part comparative study, it offers a new and provocative perspective on these poets and the critical debates around them – in particular, on Pound’s Italian years and Pasolini’s use of Pound in his work. Their connection helps to understand the implications and legacies of their work today.
Pasolini
Benini illuminates the radical politics embedded within Pasolini's adoption of Christian themes.
Troppi paradisi
Un professore sessantenne, Walter Siti, il protagonista, una casa in via Tina Pica a Roma, un tranquillo lavoro all'università dell'Aquila e la relazione con Sergio, placida, un ragazzo che lavora come autore televisivo alla Rai. Una vita mediocre, trascorsa tra programmi in tv e i gossip che Sergio racconta, da lì dentro, dove pare che tutti facciano carriera tranne lui, che il lavoro lo perde ed entra in crisi ammalandosi di anoressia. I due si separano, ma poi nella vita di Walter arriva Marcello: culturista e borgataro, un messaggero di divina bellezza che incarna lo spirito dei tempi come nessun altro. Fragile ed egoista, alla costante ricerca di piaceri effimeri e sostanze stupefacenti, trascina Walter in una spirale autodistruttiva. Un'opera epocale, in cui Walter Siti, lo scrittore, ha sintetizzato la nostra contemporaneità con sincera spietatezza: sentimenti, gesti, desideri, sogni, non sono altro che immagini illusorie di un mondo mediatico di plastica, in cui realtà e rappresentazione si mischiano irreversibilmente.
