5 December | 18.00 | Sala 2
Public talk with Paolo Speranza
The book Geografie Pasoliniane (La Valle del Tempo ed., Naples, edited by Paolo Speranza) is an original and unpublished journey across the “planet Pasolini”, intertwining some of the main themes of his poetic imagery through literature and cinema, journalism, and civic commitment, together with the physical and intellectual relationship he had with the places of his background (Bologna, Rome, Friuli). The book also explores the relationship Pasolini had with the South of Italy, with Europe, and the world, through his inexhaustible search for “lost peoples”, with the precious addition of a critical anthology with essays by Domenico Rea, Filiberto Menna, Felice Piemontese, Camillo Marino, and Vincenzo M. Siniscalchi. The essays of this volume particularly emphasize the complex and fruitful relationship between Pasolini and Campania and South of Italy, from Naples to the “Terra dell’osso (“Land of the bone”), culminating in his anthropological rendition of the Gospel According to St.Matthew and the Decameron, and in his involvement in the winning utopia of Laceno d’Oro Festival. Finally, this book is also about the indelible marks Pasolini left, with his humanity and his art, in Eastern Europe and in countries with ancient cultures such as Morocco, Iran, Brazil
