Aurelio Picca's destroyed Arsenal in Rome, in the shadow of the "ragazzi"

2021-03-17T15:19:40.294Z

CRITICAL - In the lowlands of Rome in the footsteps of Pasolini. “90% of the apartments in Viale Rossini, up to Piazza Ungheria, have been massacred. By that term I mean: crushed, chewed and spat out, as if the furniture, decoration, linens, dogs, cats and canaries had ended up in a big garbage collection truck. (…) In Via Giacomo Carissimi, the beautiful house and its Renaissance-inspired loggia had literally been torn to pieces. A sick spirit had grabbed the

“90% of the apartments in Viale Rossini, up to Piazza Ungheria, have been massacred.

By that term I mean: crushed, chewed and spat out, as if the furniture, decoration, linens, dogs, cats and canaries had ended up in a big garbage collection truck.

(…) In Via Giacomo Carissimi, the beautiful house and its Renaissance-inspired loggia had literally been torn to pieces.

A sick spirit had grabbed the owner and hung him vertically - like a frozen flag - from the only two walls of the building still standing. "

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These two paragraphs - the first and the third - of the short final sequence of Aurelio Picca's book are like a digest, a precipitate of the violence that inhabits his entire book.

A precipitate which recalls the excesses - excesses which make it the strength and the unhealthy beauty - of the last film of Pasolini,

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