Released today
on the Manifesto
the unpublished work by Ettore Viola
on Pier Paolo Pasolini
PORTRAITS OF ETTORE VIOLA
Rome, February 10, 2022
An unpublished portrait of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the work of Ettore Viola, was placed in support of the piece by Paolo Desogus on the correspondence of the great writer, poet and filmmaker, published in “Il Manifesto” on 10 February, entitled “Pier Paolo Pasolini, the restless word “.
As the centenary of Pasolini’s birth approaches (March 5), Desogus reviews the work of Antonella Giordano and Nico Naldini who have collected and contextualized the poet’s letters in a volume of over 1500 pages.
Viola’s pensive Paolini is well suited to Desogus’s reasoning, who hopes that, on the occasion of the centenary, we will once again avoid “pulling” Pasolini to one side or the other in support and demonstration of his own historical and political theses or to limit oneself to inquiries into his tragic end. The letters tell a lot about Pasolini’s versatility and his “restless” movement on the various fronts of culture and politics. Also interesting is the meticulous reconstruction of the Ramuscello “scandal” which, in 1949, led to the expulsion of Pasolini from the PCI due to his homosexuality.
