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Pilade

Pílades é menos uma peça "dialéctica" contra o poder do que uma peça épico-lírica sobre o poder. Mais do que metaforizar a sua oposição ao indivíduo, descreve a sua imparável ascensão. Apesar do adensar dos episódios, do crescer das personagens (mas em Pasolini, tão avesso à intriga, também estes são sinais, pela negativa, muito eloquentes), Pílades é de uma extrema linearidade: não apresenta novidade estrutural (nem a estrutura de eclipse, inesperadamente truncada, de Orgia, nem a de círculos concêntricos de Calderón, nem a de políptico de Afabulação), é uma espécie de (resignado?) apêndice da Oresteia de Ésquilo (traduzida por Pasolini em 1960), mas o tom e o próprio ritmo da escrita são mais os de uma azeda e pessimista epítome: e, além disso, epítome (isto é, compêndio) do já acontecido, que se considera retrospectivamente com a amarga consciência de que o "tempo" nos "deixou para trás".

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First published January 1, 1989

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Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Italian poet, novelist, critic, essayst, journalist, translator, dramatist, film director, screenwriter and philosopher, often regarded as one of the greatest minds of XX century, was murdered violently in Rome in 1975 in circumstances not yet been clarified. Pasolini is best known outside Italy for his films, many of which were based on literary sources - The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales...

Pasolini referred himself as a 'Catholic Marxist' and often used shocking juxtapositions of imagery to expose the vapidity of values in modern society.
His essays and newspaper articles often critized the capitalistic omologation and also often contributed to public controversies which had made him many enemies. In the weeks leading up to his murder he had condemned Italy's political class for its corruption, for neo-fascist terrorist conspiracy and for collusion with the Mafia and the infamous "Propaganda 2" masonic lodge of Licio Gelli and Eugenio Cefis.

His friend, the writer Alberto Moravia, considered him "the major Italian poet" of the second half of the 20th century.

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