Le ragioni dell'altro: la formazione intellettuale di Pasolini tra saggistica, letteratura e cinema.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-APR-04

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Le ragioni dell'altro: la formazione intellettuale di Pasolini tra saggistica, letteratura e cinema. By FABIO VIGHI. Ravenna: Longo Editore. 2001. 286 pp. 18.08 [euro]. ISBN 88-8063-3074.

Fabio Vighi's book offers a reassessment of Pasolini's intellectual formation between 1940 and 1961. It is divided into six closely argued and lucidly written chapters. Chapter 1 deals with his earliest intellectual activity as a student in Fascist, wartime Bologna. Chapter 2 deals with Pasolini's work in Friuli and in Friulan dialect between 1942 and 1949, looking in turn at poetry, political activism, and prose narrative. Chapters 3-5 move forward to the 1950s and to Rome, examining the early narrative and poetry of...

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