The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini Between Saint Paul and Sade

Armando Maggi

The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini Between Saint Paul and Sade
Format
Hardback
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Country
United States
Published
15 April 2009
Pages
424
ISBN
9780226501345

The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini Between Saint Paul and Sade

Armando Maggi

Italian novelist, poet, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally killed in Rome in 1975, a macabre end to a career that often explored humanity’s capacity for violence and cruelty. Along with the mystery of his murderer’s identity, Pasolini left behind a controversial but acclaimed oeuvre as well as a final quartet of beguiling projects that signaled a radical change in his aesthetics and view of reality. The Resurrection of the Body is an original and compelling interpretation of these final works: the screenplay ‘Saint Paul’, the scenario for Porn-Theo-Colossal , the immense and unfinished novel Petrolio , and his notorious final film, Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom , a disturbing adaptation of the writings of the Marquis de Sade. Together these works, Armando Maggi contends, reveal Pasolini’s obsession with sodomy and its role within his apocalyptic view of Western society. One of the first studies to explore the ramifications of Pasolini’s homosexuality, The Resurrection of the Body also breaks new ground by putting his work into fruitful conversation with an array of other thinkers such as Freud, Strindberg, Swift, Henri Michaux, and Norman O. Brown.

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