Mamme marce. Pasolini, Malaparte and the end of the West
Abstract
Malaparte’s and Pasolini’s fetuses, animals and “Christs” remind us, above all things, that the diagnosis of the end of Europe and its twice millennial culture begins with the eclipse of mourning, with the disappearance of piety. Because, after all, everything was born from Achilles’ tears on Priam’s hoary head. Pasolini and Malaparte intensely feel this collapse of civilization and respond to it in surprisingly similar ways. This contribution launches an inquiry on the intellectual relations between the two most heterodox writers of the Italian twentieth century.
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