Lettera ai giovani (Italian Edition)

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Pier Paolo Pasolini - Wikipedia

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The E-mail message field is required. Please enter the message. After joining the PCI, Pasolini took part in several demonstrations. Observing the struggles of workers and peasants, and watching the clashes of protesters with Italian police, he began to conceive his first novel. During this period, while holding a position as a teacher in a secondary school, Pasolini stood out in the local Communist Party section as a skilful writer defying the notion that communism was contrary to Christian values, even though Pope Pius XII had excommunicated communist sympathisers from the Church.

The local Christian Democrats took notice. In the summer of , Pasolini was blackmailed by a priest to renounce politics or lose his teaching position. Similarly, after some posters were put in the loggia of San Giovanni, Giambattista Caron, a Christian Democrat deputy, warned Nico Naldini that his cousin Pasolini "should abandon communist propaganda" to prevent "pernicious reactions". A small scandal broke out during a local festival in Ramuscello in September Someone informed Cordovado, the local sergeant of the carabinieri , of sexual conduct masturbation by Pasolini with three youngsters aged sixteen and younger after dancing and drinking.

He nevertheless drew up a report, and the informer elaborated publicly on his accusations, sparking a public uproar. A judge in San Vito al Tagliamento charged Pasolini with "corruption of minors and obscene acts in public places". Cordovado informed his superiors and the regional press stepped in.

He was fired from his job in Valvasone [10] and he was expelled from the Communist Party by the party's Udine section, which he considered a betrayal. He addressed a critical letter to the head of the section, his friend Ferdinando Mautino and claimed he was being subject to a "tacticism" of the Communist Party. In the party, the expulsion was opposed by Teresa Degan, Pasolini's colleague in education.

He also wrote her a letter admitting his regret for being "such a naive, even indecently so". In January Pasolini moved to Rome with his mother Susanna to start a new life. He was acquitted of both charges in and Unemployed for many years; ignored by everybody; driven by the fear to be not as life needed to be". After one year sheltered in a maternal uncle's flat next to Piazza Mattei , Pasolini and his year-old mother moved to a run-down suburb called Rebibbia, next to a prison, for 3 years; he transferred his Friulan countryside inspiration to this Roman suburb, one of the infamous borgate where poor proletarian immigrants lived in often horrendous sanitary and social conditions.

Instead of asking for help from other writers, Pasolini preferred to go his own way.

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In , with the help of the Abruzzese -language poet Vittorio Clemente , he found a job as a secondary school teacher in Ciampino , a suburb of the capital. He had a long commute involving two train changes and earned a meagre salary of 27, Italian lire. In , Pasolini, who now worked for the literary section of Italian state radio, left his teaching job and moved to the Monteverde quarter. At this point, his cousin Graziella moved in. They also accommodated Pasolini's ailing, cirrhotic father Carlo Alberto who died in His first novel, Ragazzi di vita English: Hustlers , was published in The work had great success but was poorly received by the PCI establishment and, most importantly, by the Italian government.

It initiated a lawsuit for "obscenity" against Pasolini and his editor, Garzanti. In , together with Francesco Leonetti , Roberto Roversi and others, he edited and published a poetry magazine called Officina. The magazine closed in after 14 issues. That year he also published his second novel, Una vita violenta , which unlike his first was embraced by the Communist cultural sphere: In , together with Sergio Citti , Pasolini collaborated on Federico Fellini 's film Le notti di Cabiria , writing dialogue for the Roman dialect parts.

Fellini also asked him to work on dialogue for some episodes of La dolce vita.

In he made his debut as an actor in Il gobbo and co-wrote Long Night in Along with Ragazzi di vita , he had his celebrated poem Le ceneri di Gramsci published, where Pasolini voiced tormented tensions between reason and heart, as well as the existing ideological dialectics within communism, a debate over artistic freedom, Socialist realism and commitment.

His first film as director and screenwriter was Accattone in , again set in Rome's marginal quarters.

It was a story of pimps, prostitutes and thieves that contrasted with Italy's postwar economic reforms. Although Pasolini tried to distance himself from neorealism , the film is considered to be a kind of second neorealism. Nick Barbaro, a critic writing in the Austin Chronicle , stated it "may be the grimmest movie" he has ever seen.

In , the episode "La ricotta", included in the anthology film RoGoPaG , was censored and Pasolini was tried for "offense to the Italian state and religion". During this period Pasolini frequently traveled abroad: In he traveled again to Africa to shoot the documentary, Appunti per un'Orestiade africana. In he was a member of the jury at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival. In , in Venice, he met and interviewed the American poet Ezra Pound. The late s and early s were the era of the so-called "student movement".

Pasolini, though acknowledging the students' ideological motivations, and referring to himself as a "Catholic Marxist", [21] thought them "anthropologically middle-class" and therefore destined to fail in their attempts at revolutionary change. Regarding the Battle of Valle Giulia , which took place in Rome in March , he said that he sympathized with the police, as they were "children of the poor", while the young militants were exponents of what he called "left-wing fascism".

Pasolini had proclaimed that the Festival would be managed by the directors. In Pasolini bought an old castle near Viterbo , several miles north of Rome, where he began to write his last novel, Il Petrolio , where he denounced obscure dealing in the highest levels of government and the corporate world Eni , CIA , the Mafia , etc. In he started to collaborate with the extreme-left association Lotta Continua , producing a documentary, 12 dicembre , concerning the Piazza Fontana bombing.

The following year he began a collaboration for Italy's most renowned newspaper, Il Corriere della Sera. At the beginning of Garzanti published a collection of his critical essays, Scritti corsari "Corsair Writings". Pasolini was murdered on 2 November on the beach at Ostia. He had been run over several times by his own car.

Multiple bones were broken and his testicles were crushed by what appeared to be a metal bar. An autopsy revealed that his body had been partially burned with gasoline after death. The crime was long viewed as a Mafia-style revenge killing, extremely unlikely for one person to have carried out. Pasolini was buried in Casarsa. Giuseppe Pino Pelosi — , then 17 years old, was caught driving Pasolini's car and confessed to the murder. He was convicted in , initially with "unknown others", but this phrase was later removed from the verdict. Twenty-nine years later, on 7 May , Pelosi retracted his confession, which he said had been made under the threat of violence to his family.

He claimed that three people "with a Southern accent" had committed the murder, insulting Pasolini as a "dirty communist". Other evidence uncovered in suggested that Pasolini had been murdered by an extortionist. Pasolini generated heated public discussion with controversial analyses of public affairs. For instance, during the disorders of , autonomist university students were carrying on a guerrilla-like uprising against the police in the streets of Rome, and all the leftist forces declared their complete support for the students, describing the disorders as a civil fight of proletariat against the System.

Pasolini, however, made comments that have been frequently been interpreted as statements that he was with the police; or, more precisely, with the policemen.

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Addressing the students, he tells them that, unlike the international news media which has been reporting on them, he will not flatter them. He explained that this sympathy was because the policemen were " figli di poveri " "children of the poor". The poem highlights the aspect of generational struggle within the bourgeoisie represented by the student movement: He found that the policemen were but the outer layer of the real power, e.

During all his life, Pasolini was frequently entangled in lawsuits filed against him, up to 33, variously charged with "public disgrace", "foul language", "obscenity", "pornography", "contempt of religion", "contempt of the state", etc. However, the conventional interpretation of Pasolini's position has been challenged: Pasolini and the students are obviously in agreement against the police institution", and that the poem portrays policemen as dehumanised by their work, and that although the battles between students and the police were fights between the rich and the poor, Pasolini concedes that the students were "on the side of reason" whilst the police were "in the wrong".

Wu Ming 1 suggests that Pasolini's intent was to express scepticism regarding the idea of students being a revolutionary force, contending that only the working class could make a revolution, and that revolutionary students should join the Communist Party.

That year he also wrote in support of the Communist Party's proposals for disarming the police, arguing that this would create a break in the psychology of policemen: Pasolini's polemics were aimed at goading protesters into re-thinking their revolt, and did not stop him from contributing to the autonomist Lotta continua movement, who he described as "extremists, yes, maybe fanatic and insolently boorish from a cultural point of view, but they push their luck and that is precisely why I think they deserve to be supported.

We must want too much in order to obtain a little". He was particularly concerned about the class of the subproletariat , which he portrayed in Accattone , and to which he felt both humanly and artistically drawn. Pasolini observed that the kind of purity which he perceived in the pre-industrial popular culture was rapidly vanishing, a process that he named la scomparsa delle lucciole lit. The joie de vivre of the boys was being rapidly replaced with more bourgeois ambitions such as a house and a family.

He was critical of those leftists who held a "traditional and never admitted hatred against lumpenproletariats and poor populations": Pasolini's stance finds its roots in the belief that a Copernican change was taking place in the Italian society and the world. Linked to that very idea, Pasolini was also an ardent critic of consumismo , i.

That change is related to the loss of humanism and the expansion of productivity as central to the human condition, which he despised. He found that 'new culture' was degrading and vulgar. Pasolini saw some continuity between the Fascist era and the post-War political system which was led by the Christian Democrats, describing the latter as "clerico-fascism" due to its use of the state as a repressive instrument and its manipulation of power: The June elections saw the rise of the leftist parties, and dwelling on his blunt, ever more political approach and prophetic style during this period, he declared in the Corriere della Sera the time had come to put the most prominent Christian Democrat figures on trial in court, where they would need to be shown walking in handcuffs and led by the carabinieri: He was angered by economic globalization and cultural domination of the North of Italy around Milan over other regions, especially the South.

He lashed out at publicity and television. A debate TV program recorded in , where he denounced censorship, was not actually aired until the day following his murder in November In a reform plan that he drew up in September and October he got closer to the Communist Party, "an island of salvation" , among the desirable measures to be implemented, he cited the abolition of compulsory secondary school, and television. He opposed the gradual disappearance of Italy's minority languages by writing some of his poetry in Friulan , the regional language of his childhood.

His opposition to the liberalization of abortion law made him unpopular on the left. After he engaged with the left-libertarian , liberal and anti-clerical Radical Party Partito Radicale: A Federation activist, Vincenzo Cerami, delivered the speech he was due to give at the Radical Party congress: Outside of Italy, Pasolini took a particular interest in the developing world , seeing parallels between life among the Italian underclass and in the third world, declaring that Bandung was the capital of three-quarters of the world and half of Italy.

He was also positive about the New Left in the United States: Pasolini saw these two areas of struggle as inter-linked: While openly gay from the very start of his career thanks to a gay sex scandal that sent him packing from his provincial hometown to live and work in Rome , Pasolini rarely dealt with homosexuality in his movies. In Pasolini met "the great love of his life", fifteen-year-old Ninetto Davoli , whom he later cast in his film Uccellacci e uccellini literally Bad Birds and Little Birds but translated in English as The Hawks and the Sparrows. Pasolini became the youth's mentor and friend.

Pasolini's first novel, Ragazzi di vita , dealt with the Roman lumpenproletariat. The book caused obscenity charges to be filed against Pasolini, the first of many instances in which his art provoked legal problems. The movie Accattone , also about the Roman underworld, also provoked controversy, and conservatives demanded stricter censorship by the government.

He wrote and directed the black-and-white The Gospel According to Matthew It is based on scripture, but adapted by Pasolini, and he is credited as writer. Jesus, a barefoot peasant, is played by Enrique Irazoqui. While filming it, Pasolini vowed to direct it from the "believer's point of view", but later said that upon viewing the completed work, he realized he had expressed his own beliefs.

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In Teorema Theorem , , starring Terence Stamp as a mysterious stranger, Pasolini depicted the sexual coming-apart of a bourgeois family. Later movies centered on sex-laden folklore, such as Boccaccio 's Decameron , Chaucer 's The Canterbury Tales , and Il fiore delle mille e una notte literally The Flower of Nights , released in English as Arabian Nights , These films are usually grouped as the Trilogy of Life.

While basing them on classics, Pasolini wrote the screenplays and took sole credit as writer. This trilogy, prompted largely by Pasolini's attempt to show the secular sacredness of the body against man-made social controls and especially against the venal hypocrisy of religious state indeed, the religious characters in The Canterbury Tales are shown as pious but amorally grasping fools were an effort at representing a state of natural sexual innocence essential to the true nature of free humanity.

Alternately playfully bawdy and poetically sensuous, wildly populous, subtly symbolic and visually exquisite, the films were wildly popular in Italy and remain perhaps his most enduringly popular works. Yet despite the fact that the trilogy as a whole is considered by many as a masterpiece, Pasolini later reviled his own creation on account of the many soft-core imitations of these three films in Italy that happened afterwards on account of the very same popularity he wound up deeply uncomfortable with. He believed that a bastardisation of his vision had taken place that amounted to a commoditisation of the body he had tried to deny in his trilogy in the first place.

Based on the novel Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade , it is considered Pasolini's most controversial film. As a director, Pasolini created a picaresque neorealism , showing a sad reality.