Paolo Pasolini Legitimisation and strategy of narration in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s films Il Decameron and Salò

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  • Marijana Erstic University of Split / Sveu?ilište u Splitu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.27.28625

Keywords:

Giovanni Boccaccio, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Decameron, Salò.

Abstract

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s works are intellectual milestones of the 20th century. His Trilogia della vita and the unfinished Trilogia della morte provide insights into the elementary situations of human existence such as love, sexuality, but also death, danger, and the torments of the concentration camps of the 20th century. Time and again, they also sharpen our view of the current situation. In the spirit of Pier Paolo Pasolini, this essay has a well-known reason: at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron was frequently quoted alongside Camus’ novel The Stranger. Pier Paolo Pasolini created an update of the Italian classic in 1971, and it is this film that I will focus on below. I will try to find out how the legitimization of Boccaccio’s narrative is transformed in Pasolini’s film Decameron. Pasolini’s film Salò serves as a counterpoint to Decameron, which I will deal with in the last part of the essay. The aim of the essay is an analysis of the strategies of narrative legitimation in Boccaccio, which are placed in the context of Pasolini’s film narration.

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Author Biography

Marijana Erstic, University of Split / Sveu?ilište u Splitu

Marijana Erstic , full professor of German Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Split in Croatia. Previously project manager of an international conference on 100 Years after Fiume - Conversations on Gabriele D’Annunzio at the German-Italian Centre for European Dialogue Villa Vigoni in Loveno di Menaggio in Italy, also substitute professor, private lecturer, lecturer, and project collaborator at the University of Siegen in Germany. Habilitation in Siegen on Ein Jahrhundert der Verunsicherung: Medienkomparatistische Analysen   / A Century of Uncertainty: Comparative Media Analyses (publication: Siegen 2017), and Paragone 1900. Studien zum Futurismus Paragone 1900: Studies on Futurism (publication: Siegen 2018). PhD in Siegen with a thesis on family images in the films of Luchino Visconti (University of Siegen Study Prize 2007; publication: Heidelberg 2008).

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Filmografia


Mamma Roma. Italia 1962 Reg.: Pier Paolo Pasolini.


Le streghe. Italia / Francia 1967. Reg.: Mauro Bolognini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Rossi, Vittorio de Sica, Luchino Visconti.


Il Decameron. Italia 1971. Reg.: Pier Paolo Pasolini. 


Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma. Italia 1975. Reg.: Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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2024-07-24

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Erstic, M. (2024). Paolo Pasolini Legitimisation and strategy of narration in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s films Il Decameron and Salò. EU-topías. A Journal on Interculturality, Communication, and European Studies, 27, 125–132. https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.27.28625
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