Before completing his uncharacteristically hopeful filmic vision of an African Oresteia, Pier Paolo Pasolini invented a theatrical continuation of Aeschylus’s trilogy. Pilade (1966/70) imagines what happens after Orestes, having being absolved by the Aeropagos in Athens, goes back to Argos. With its clear allusions to political developments in the last century – fascism, the Resistance, and Communist revolutions – the play reads as a mythical allegory for the situation of engaged intellectuals in the twentieth century.
Keywords: Pasolini, Pier Paolo – Pilade; Aeschylus – Oresteia; multistable figures; contradictory thinking; paradoxes in literature
Part of The Scandal of Self-Contradiction Containing:
Frontmatter / Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Introduction / Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey
‘La vera Diversità’: Multistability, Circularity, and Abjection in Pasolini’s Pilade
Pasolini as Jew: Between Israel and Europe / Robert S. C. Gordon
Pier Paolo Pasolini and Pan-Meridional Italianness / Giovanna Trento
The Body of the Actor: Notes on the Relationship between the Body and Acting in Pasolini’s Cinema / Agnese Grieco
The Guest: Transfiguring Indifference in Teorema / Claudia Peppel
Analogy and Difference: Multistable Figures in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Appunti per un’Orestiade Africana / Manuele Gragnolati
Pasolini and India: De- and Re-Construction of a Myth / Silvia Mazzini
Outside Italy: Pasolini’s Transnational Visions of the Sacred and Tradition / Francesca Cadel
Reconciliation and Stark Incompatibility: Pasolini’s ‘Africa’ and Greek Tragedy / Bernhard Gross
One Divided by Another: Split and Conversion in Pasolini’s San Paolo / Luca Di Blasi
Alain Badiou’s Pasolini: The Problem of Subtractive Universalism / Bruno Besana
Figura lacrima / Hervé Joubert-Laurencin
Cinematographic Aesthetics as Subversion of Moral Reason in Pasolini’s Medea / Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
Destruction, Negation, Subtraction / Alain Badiou
Bandung Man / L’uomo di Bandung / Pier Paolo Pasolini
mythisnow — pasoliniandeuropetoday / Joulia Strauss
Backmatter / Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Title
‘La vera Diversità’
Subtitle
Multistability, Circularity, and Abjection in Pasolini’s Pilade
Author(s)
Christoph F. E. Holzhey
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Before completing his uncharacteristically hopeful filmic vision of an African Oresteia, Pier Paolo Pasolini invented a theatrical continuation of Aeschylus’s trilogy. Pilade (1966/70) imagines what happens after Orestes, having being absolved by the Aeropagos in Athens, goes back to Argos. With its clear allusions to political developments in the last century – fascism, the Resistance, and Communist revolutions – the play reads as a mythical allegory for the situation of engaged intellectuals in the twentieth century.
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Vienna
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Turia + Kant
Date
2012
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Pasolini, Pier Paolo – Pilade
Aeschylus – Oresteia
multistable figures
contradictory thinking
paradoxes in literature
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Christoph F. E. Holzhey, ‘​“La vera Diversità”: Multistability, Circularity, and Abjection in Pasolini’s Pilade’, in The Scandal of Self-Contradiction: Pasolini’s Multistable Subjectivities, Geographies, Traditions, ed. by Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, and Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 6 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2012), pp. 19–35 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_02>
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19
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35
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The Scandal of Self-Contradiction: Pasolini’s Multistable Subjectivities, Geographies, Traditions, ed. by Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, and Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 6 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2012), pp. 19–35
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Cite as: Christoph F. E. Holzhey, ‘​“La vera Diversità”: Multistability, Circularity, and Abjection in Pasolini’s Pilade’, in The Scandal of Self-Contradiction: Pasolini’s Multistable Subjectivities, Geographies, Traditions, ed. by Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, and Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 6 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2012), pp. 19–35 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_02>