'' Gathering in oneself and thinking '' is a verse from '' The best of youth '' of the early 1950s by Pier Paolo Pasolini and today, 45 years after his death, after his assassination on November 2, 1975, we miss precisely the reflective poet who gives life to the intellectual corsair who attacks the conformism of right-thinking people, the ideas and the being of the dominant petty bourgeoisie and the power of the palaces that are is the expression. '' Against all this you have to do nothing (I believe) other than simply continue to be yourself: which means being continually unrecognizable. Immediately forget the great successes: and continue undeterred, obstinate, eternally opposed, to pretend, to want, to identify yourselves with the different; to scandalize; to blaspheme '', as one of his latest writings states, prepared for a speech at the Radical Party congress, which he could no longer hold.
It is also this way of being, his having caused scandal with ideas as with his life and his homosexuality, together with his poems, his novels, his films and above all the countless critical, theoretical and civil writings on the arts and society, which have transformed it into a constant presence, almost always growing, of the cultural debate not only in Italy, a point of reference and an ever-living presence among scholars and students just as we complain about how guilty it is most of the literary culture of the late twentieth century has been forgotten.
The many and diverse writings, collected in ten volumes of the Meridiani Mondadori, of this '' poet, philologist and shaman, Socratic pedagogue and martyr in the literal sense of the term (or 'witness') '', as summarized by Valerio Magrelli, who died at the age of 53 they continue to provoke readings and interpretations, combinations and insights that show the strength and the incandescent universal core in this world of ours of his visions, his ideas, his profound analyzes that have turned out to be almost prophecies on industrial society that still speak to us in the our electronic civilization. For this reason, it is unacceptable to limit oneself, as often happens, to some extremely reductive ideas and statements that have had great fortune, from the observation on the absence of fireflies in a nature plundered by man to the famous '' I know, but I have no proof '' about the plots behind the events of those tragic years. Not to mention that about those proofs, about his '' knowledge '', there was discussion linking him to the reasons for his death. And still there is debate, if it is just published by Ponte alle Grazie `` The broken investigation by Pier Paolo Pasolini '' by Simona Zecchi which has as its subtitle '' Massacres, Vatican, DC: what the poet knew and why he was killed ' 'which is linked in particular to what is written and planned to write about Eni in the unfinished and posthumously published novel' 'Petrolio' 'and to a dossier that the writer would have had from one of the right-wing protagonists of the strategy of tension. Thus, if in 1995 Marco Tullio Giordana signed the film '' Pasolini, an Italian crime '', scripted as an investigation into the murder and in 2014 Abel Ferrara reconstructed in his own way the last day and death in the film '' Pasolini '' with Willem Dafoe, the documentary '' In un futuro aprile - Il Giovane Pasolini '' by Francesco Costabile and Federico Savonitto is now out (online for Covid), which narrates the Friulian youth years, to demonstrate how much it still is today public figure who also fascinates the new generations.
Born in Bologna on March 5, 1922, he lived in the 1940s in Casarsa in Friuli with his beloved mother and brother (who died partisan) and left in 1950 in Rome to escape the scandal caused by the public denunciation of '' corruption of minors '' 'linked to his homosexuality and his teaching profession, which also cost him his expulsion from the PCI. In the capital more and more, over the years, his biographical story is identified with the often agitated one of the writer, artist, scholar and intellectual committed to testifying and defending, even in court, his own radical diversity, up to precisely at his death on the night between 1st and 2nd November 1975 at the seaplane base of Ostia, physically killed by one or more of his '' life boys ''.
Apparently closed man, precisely from Friuli, caught up in his thinking, poet and writer closed in his study, author of many collections of verses (later reunited under the title `` Blasphemies ''), novels such as `` Ragazzi di vita '' and '' The dream of a thing '', of theatrical theses, from '' Porcile '' to '' Affabolazione '', he also became the director of successful films, from '' Accattone '' to '' Mamma Roma '', from '' Uccellacci e uccellini '' to '' Medea '', from The Gospel according to Matthew '' to '' Salò and the 120 days of Sodom '' which made him a public figure from magazines, which also exploited the scandal of his various trials for '' obscenity '' or '' apologia for crime '' and for his feeling '' inorganic '' and '' inhomogeneous '' to the world in which he operated with his '' rhetoric of provocation '', a lucid stylistic demystifying tool of analysis of the ideologies and behaviors of the culture and violence of the neo-capitalist society. (HANDLE).