ARTICOLI / 9 – di Vinícius Nicastro Honesko
The present essay intents to investigate some relations between literature and life in Pier Paolo Pasolini. From the reading of some of his texts – from the beginning of the forties until the end of the sixties –, it presents how the dimension of mystery crosses the experience of language made by Pasolini. It proposes that the discussions about mono- or multilingualism in the Italian tradition are somehow in the center of this kind of experience intended by Pasolini, although in Pasolini this is more than just an option between two choices: the experience of language is as much an aesthetic as an ethical problem to the poet. It observes that this kind of experience is the fundamental condition to fuse life and scripture in an indiscernible amalgam. At last, it analyses – with the theoretical support of Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot among others – how the mystery of language survives from Pasolini’s work about Pascoli (in the forties) until his texts about the cinematographic language (in the sixties).
