irth of a Persona: Pier Paolo Pasolini and the “Pound’s Function”
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The essay traces the various stages of the relationship between Pier Paolo Pasolini and Erza Pound. It analyzes the causes of Pasolini’s initial rejection of Pound and his subsequent interest for the American poet. Focusing on the famous and controversial interview entitled An Hour with Erza Pound, and the Poundian intertexual citations in Pilade, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, The New Youth, and Petrolio, the author shows how Pound too became one of Pasolini’s many authorial models, the symbol of a scandalous poet with whom Pasolini identified in the last phase of his career.
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