" Pasolini now is to accept as a great poet of modernity, but is objectionable in the complex reality of our present he is not there, we do not need . Belpoliti Marco, influential essayist and lecturer, explains the paradox in Kilgore that is the basis of His latest book, a pamphlet on the great poet from Friuli that stresses the importance homosexuality in his work and asks, provocatively, but not too much, to eat the master, as suggested by the crow Toto in Pasolini's film Hawks and the Sparrows . Pasolini in spicy sauce (published by Bloomsbury Publishing) is an essay that brings together several writings that address the issue of sexuality the poet, his physicality and its darker sides, those who depart from the "dark bowels" of the Ashes of Gramsci.
The result is a brilliant and provocative little book, which throws a stone in the unspoken of society - cultural, but not only - Italian and leads readers to reflect today from a different perspective on the human and artistic (ethics and aesthetics should perhaps say) of an intellectual who does not end an era and to the scandal, but today - in the metaphor of Belpoliti - should be digested by then to have the opportunity to look ahead.
Belpoliti Pasolini tells us about a membership that requires all-encompassing, so as to create " paradox of being right, wrong or even when turning the perspective with which they disagree, even when he's right. "The theme of the duality of the poet is ubiquitous in the essays of Belpoliti, even in the one devoted to portraits of Pasolini made by Ugo Mulas: The writer is described as an "old-boy " where the obvious and deep wrinkles joins the constant expression of surprise and discovery. The profile that emerges is so much real as that fond of the cover which reconstructs Belpoliti page after page. But the affection does not cover the heart of the controversial essay, which raises the deck for 35 years - many years have passed since the death of Pasolini - seems to be silent on most disturbing part of the personality of the poet: his eroticism. Belpoliti speaks explicitly - referring to Walter Siti, writer and scholar of Pasolini - "a cult of beauty and the sacred in Friuli that take the form of gift and rape." The word falls like a boulder on the table of intellectuals, but it is this that you are talking like you are talking about another huge social taboo, "pedophilia."
"Pasolini - Belpoliti says - it is still scandalous in a homophobic society like ours because he was not interested in the relationship between two equal adults homosexual, his model is the relationship between an adult man, himself, and a straight guy. This is one of the roots of his poetic and intellectual diversity . We live in an era post-gay, and now is incollocabile Pasolini, belongs to the past. "Moving on literary analysis Belpoliti you do, if anything, even more explicit:" Pasolini should be read for the sweetness of his poetry , but it is a poem dead farther from us than that of Dante . And 'poor that Italy is no more and disappeared. "Pirate and Italy that the writer loved Lutheran relation to aspects such as intense sexual repression that made - in his words - the most beautiful and young - adds Belpoliti - more open to adventure homoerotic.
Belpoliti Mark's speech, however, is directed primarily to the present and, citing new sites that presented the book in Rome in recent days, recalls that after his death, Pasolini was used to silence many intellectuals under the banner " see how outrageous he was, you're not even capable. " "Eat Pasolini - explains Belpoliti - means taking responsibility to speak today, even wrong." And the professor does not hold some back: "Today - explains with passion - the intellectuals are not free to express themselves not in a choir. Who does not fall into these patterns (and names Belpoliti ago: Cortellessa, Trevi, Scurati, ed) is hard to find space. "The analysis then moves to the pressing news:" Today's sexual imagery Colpo Grosso came to power, and the obscene ritual of Bunga Bunga is something that goes beyond even the distinction between male and female. "
last remark, but not least, the murder of Pasolini. Belpoliti says he has never said that the poet was killed by Pelosi and only be favorable to the reopening of investigations. "But I do not think was killed for political reasons . The chapter of stolen oil - which some of the truths contained on Mattei's death and would have resulted in the murder of Pasolini - he did not see anyone, is a fantasy, expresses the paranoia of Italian intellectuals. "
