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Pasolini
Secondary reading: Teorema
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Viano on Pasolini's motivation | “Dissatisfied with verbal discourse, he ‘wrote’ a theoretical piece in the language of cinema, exploring a territory—film as theory” |
| Viano on thematic opposites | “The corporeal and the spiritual, difference and the absolute, the material and the immaterial work together in Teorema” |
| Viano on "a certain realism" | “It offers realistic glasses to its viewers, but the reality it portrays is open to interpretation,” |
| Cesare on "the real theorem" | That “one should have a idolatrous relationship with reality” |
| Cesare on the bourgeois desire | “The bourgeoisie nostalgically yearns for the spirituality of its peasant ancestors in order to give meaning to the vacuity oř its bourgeois existence” |
| Bernardi on the book and novel | "due parti complementari e non ripetitive di una stessa opera” |
| Bernardi on avant-garde in the novel | "un recupero di modelli antichi, in cui il caos è una ricchezza, una pluralità di forme e non una mancanza di forma” |
| Bernardi on infinite meaning | The book is “sovraccarico, quasi illeggibile” |