In its elusive form between drama, novel and film, Teorema marks a ‘new turning point in Pasolini’s oeuvre’. Both the narrative and the style are remarkable, juxtaposing elements of different genres, nourishing the unresolved tensions within the film: the family members are shown in various scenes that follow one another in seemingly random order. Instead of a cohesive narrative unfolding in time, there reigns a sense of timelessness that gives rise to an oppressive feeling of drifting.
Keywords: Pasolini, Pier Paolo – Teorema; dramatic conflict; guest; hospitality; strangers
Title
The Guest
Subtitle
Transfiguring Indifference in Teorema
Author(s)
Claudia Peppel
Identifier
Description
In its elusive form between drama, novel and film, Teorema marks a ‘new turning point in Pasolini’s oeuvre’. Both the narrative and the style are remarkable, juxtaposing elements of different genres, nourishing the unresolved tensions within the film: the family members are shown in various scenes that follow one another in seemingly random order. Instead of a cohesive narrative unfolding in time, there reigns a sense of timelessness that gives rise to an oppressive feeling of drifting.
Is Part Of
Place
Vienna
Publisher
Turia + Kant
Date
2012
Subject
Pasolini, Pier Paolo – Teorema
dramatic conflict
guest
hospitality
strangers
Rights
© by the author(s)
This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Language
en-GB
page start
105
page end
116
Source
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. 105–16
Bibliographic Citation
Claudia Peppel, ‘The Guest: Transfiguring Indifference in Teorema’, 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. 105–16 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_06>
Format
application/pdf

References

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  • Pasolini, Pier Paolo, Alì dagli occhi azzurri (Milan: Garzanti, 1965)
  • Pasolini, Pier Paolo, Saggi sulla letteratura e sull’arte, ed. by Walter Siti and Silvia De Laude, 2 vols (Milan: Mondadori, 1999)
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  • Siciliano, Enzo, Pasolini: A Biography, trans. by John Shepley (New York: Random House, 1982)
  • Siciliano, Enzo, Vita di Pasolini (Milan: Mondadori, 2005)

Cite as: Claudia Peppel, ‘The Guest: Transfiguring Indifference in Teorema’, 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. 105–16 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_06>