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| | Pasolini, Pier Paolo
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(Bologna 1922 – Ostia, Rome 1975) His father being an army officer, he spent his childhood in various cities in Veneto and Emilia, graduating for Bologna University. He wrote poems in the dialect of his mother’s town (Casarsa): “Poesia a Casarsa” (1942) and “La Meglio Gioventù” (1954). In Friuli he founded a literary magazine in local dialect ‘il Stroligut’. Pasolini joined the resistance and in 1947 signed up in the Communist Party from which he was later expelled for corruption of minors. In 1950 he moved to rome with his mother and there he was fascinated by the lower proletarian classes which he described in “Ragazzi di Vita” (1955) and “Una Vita Violenta“ (1959). They were appreciated by the more intellectual circles, but were condemned as pornographic. He wrote poetry, “Le Ceneri di Gransci”, and later turned to the world of movies first writing screenplays, then as director. His first two movies “Accattone!” (1964) and “ Mamma Roma” (1970) also dealt with life in the streets. In the sixties he focused his attention to religion and filmed “Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo” (1964), “Edipo Re” (1967) and “Medea” (1970). In “Teorema” (1968) Pasolini analyzed the emptyness of morality of the bourgeoisie. In the mean time he had continued to write poems and plays shadowed by a darl pessimism that was envelopping his works. He set three great masterpieces to film “Il Decamerone” (1971), “The Canterbury Tales” (1972) and “Il Fiore Delle Mille e una Note” (1974). In the last years of his life he also wrote numerous newspaper articles attacking hedonism and consumerism typical of modern Italy. He was murdered by a street boy the night between the 1st and the 2nd of November 1975. | | |
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