Abstract
This essay introduces a comprehensive approach to Pasolini’s last narrative projects by drawing a structural idea of Grace from the performative position of the author as a 'reader of himself', as developed from Augustine to Proust. The analysis focuses on Pasolini’s 'Divine Mimesis' and 'Petrolio' along with a series of comparative texts: Dante’s 'Comedy' and 'Vita Nova', Barthes’s 'Preparation of the Novel' and 'Vita Nova'. In the conclusion, Pasolini’s narrative and cinematographic definition of Grace is linked to Barthes’s idea of the 'poikilos novel'.
| Translated title of the contribution | The Dream of Grace: Pasolini as Reader of Himself and the Poikilos novel |
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| Original language | Italian |
| Title of host publication | La Grazia: Declinazioni metafisiche e teologiche, letterarie e cinematografiche |
| Subtitle of host publication | Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei |
| Editors | Barnaba Maj |
| Place of Publication | Alessandria |
| Publisher | Edizioni dell'Orso |
| Pages | 25-42 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-88-6274-711-0 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Pasolini
- Dante
- Proust
- Augustine
- Grace