«La figura della mezzacosta». L'ultimo Pasolini tra simbolo e allegoria
Résumé
· «The figure of mezzacosta». The Last Pasolini between Symbol and Allegory · This paper aims to investigate the unique point of view assumed by Pier Paolo Pasolini in Petrolio. His last unfinished work can be defined an epic «poem» and at the same time also a «burdensome allegory». What the author calls the «halfway figure» could be in fact a narrative device to act between two rhetorical and ideological tendencies, according to which on the one hand the author should describe things «in their motion, in their evolution, in their history», and
on the other, instead, tell them as «crystallized and petrified». These two techniques will be mentioned here through the concepts of Symbol and Allegory, Narration and Description as they are defined in the essays of György Lukács and Walter Benjamin.