Pasolini, Pier Paolo
The Divine Mimesis
- ISBN 13:
- 9781940625072
- author:
- Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Contra Mundum Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2014
- Pages:
- 176
- Dimensions:
- 20.3 x 12.7 x 1 centimetres (0.1
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticsm, European,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
The Divine Mimesis by Pier Paolo Pasolini is a searing critique of Italian society and the intelligentsia of the 1960s, presented as an imitation of Dante's Inferno. Written between 1963 and 1967, this work reflects Pasolini's concerns about the loss of connotative expressiveness in the Italian language. Pasolini's project is a 'rewrite' of Dante's Commedia, featuring two historical embodiments of himself as the pilgrim and guide on an underworld journey. The narrative is densely layered with poetic and philological allusions, accompanied by photographs that juxtapose the world of the Italian literati with rural Italian reality. This unfinished work was curtailed several years before its intended publication, but it remains a significant example of Pasolini's exploration of poetry as a means to probe and teach ethically and aesthetically in reality.
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