Pier Paolo Pasolini and contemporary Italian literature

Abstract

The article is concerned with the perception of Pasolini’s works and ideas in the contemporary Italian literature. Many modern writers mention or refer to Pasolini in their works. For some of them he is a brilliant rebel of the 1970s (Elena Ferrante), others are still shocked by his death (Andrea Baiani), some turn to his literary heritage, borrowing individual ideas and images (the idea of Post-history cited by Antonio Scurati, the theme of duplicity by Sandro Veronesi, the theme of consumerism in modern society by Walter City) or echo by the very structure of their works (Giuseppe Genna). Pasolini becomes an example or a beacon for many modern writers, he is seen as a man who is undividedly devoted to the word and at the same time has a clear ideological position, who put above all the needs of his neighbors and who took on himself the role of the national conscience revealing the ills of modern society.