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By Armando Maggi

Italian novelist, poet, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was once brutally killed in Rome in 1975, a macabre finish to a profession that regularly explored humanity’s skill for violence and cruelty. besides the secret of his murderer’s id, Pasolini left at the back of a debatable yet acclaimed oeuvre in addition to a last quartet of beguiling tasks that signaled an intensive swap in his aesthetics and think about of reality.

 

The Resurrection of the Body is an unique and compelling interpretation of those ultimate works: the screenplay Saint Paul, the state of affairs for Porn-Theo-Colossal, the great and unfinished novel Petrolio, and his infamous ultimate movie, Salò or the a hundred and twenty Days of Sodom, a annoying version of the writings of the Marquis de Sade. jointly those works, Armando Maggi contends, demonstrate Pasolini’s obsession with sodomy and its position inside of his apocalyptic view of Western society. one of many first experiences to discover the ramifications of Pasolini’s homosexuality, The Resurrection of the Body additionally breaks new floor by way of placing his paintings into fruitful dialog with an array of alternative thinkers reminiscent of Freud, Strindberg, rapid, Henri Michaux, and Norman O. Brown.

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