The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780226501345)

Italian novelist, poet, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally killed in Rome in 1975, a macabre end to a career that often explored humanity's capacity for violence and cruelty. Along with the mystery of his murderer's identity, Pasolini left behind a controversial but acclaimed oeuvre as well as a final quartet of beguiling projects that signaled a radical change in his aesthetics and view of reality. The Resurrection of the Body is an original and compelling interpretation of these final works: the screenplay Saint Paul, the scenario for Porn-Theo-Colossal, the immense and unfinished novel Petrolio, and his notorious final film, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, a disturbing adaptation of the writings of the Marquis de Sade. Together these works, Armando Maggi contends, reveal Pasolini's obsession with sodomy and its role within his apocalyptic view of Western society. One of the first studies to explore the ramifications of Pasolini's homosexuality, The Resurrection of the Body also breaks new ground by putting his work into fruitful conversation with an array of other thinkers such as Freud, Strindberg, Swift, Henri Michaux, and Norman O. Brown.

Author: Armando Maggi
ISBN-10: 0226501345
ISBN-13: 9780226501345
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2009
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.30d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 04/17/2009 pg. 21
Choice 09/01/2009