CONTRIBUTI / 1 / Giulia Cigna /
In this essay I will analyse the topic of time and temporality in some of Pasolini’s works. The starting point of my analysis will be the assumption that the recurring presence of the topic of time is the sign of Pasolini’s attention to time and of his questioning the ways of representing it. As a consequence, several representations, consciousness and perceptions of time can be found in his writing. I will first do a close reading of I Godoari of Petrolio. This group of Appunti will then give the impetus for a comparison with the Benjaminian concepts of Jetztzeit and Ursprung that I will highlight through some passages from the geschichtsphilosophischen Thesen and Das Passagen-Werk. In the third part of my essay I will explore Pasolini’s aversion of Hegel and I will compare some passages of Petrolio, some poems and some interviews to Pasolini with some passages of the Wissenschaft der Logik and of the Phänomenologie. These two comparisons, focused on language and temporal images and concepts, will give a sense of the Pasolinian temporality, showing its compounded complexity.
