Pasolini “eretico” e la lezione inascoltata di Gramsci

Abstract

Pasolini strongly feared in life to be exploited by power, to remain an involuntary victim of the system's ability to metabolize even the positions opposed to it and to draw vital lymph from it for its own internal reform and perpetuation. Hence some of his polemical extremism and certain provocative attitudes that could have seemed literary poses. But worse happened to him after his death. Every anniversary we witness his "sanctification", almost as if he were a flagship of that mature capitalist society of which he denounced, with far-sightedness, all the anti-democratic and even dictatorial aspects. This study aims to contrast iconographic trends, of any sign, to study Pasolini in his humanity, in his contradictions, in his "leaps forward" from the stagnant Italian cultural environment, but also in his inevitable links with the past, even in his its "retro" and "conservative" forms. An "all-round" Pasolini, therefore, whose work must be analyzed in its complexity and articulation, in its "versatility", which involves the various fields of art and knowledge. A Pasolini who has a conflicting relationship with the work of Gramsci, of which he is in part heir, but of which he does not incorporate some fundamental aspects, functional to the radical change of capitalist society.