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Gramsci appears in the work of Pasolini at different levels. A first level is ‘ideal’, ethical: is the ‘leopardian Gramsci’, ‘pure heroic thought’, characterized also by the stigmata of ‘rigour’ (as in The Ashes of Gramsci). A second level is given by Gramsci’s reflection on the social question of language, a topic which Pasolini’s special attention towards the problems of dialect and Italian language refers to in different but constant ways. Finally, it should be noted the keen interest that Pasolini showed, around the mid-Sixties, for the language of Gramsci, for his ‘writing and thinking’, especially the one expressed in the Letters from prison, a work in which, according to Pasolini, the Sardinian thinker succeeded in making ‘irrationalism and exercise of reason’ coincide.
