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
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 / Christoph F. E. Holzhey
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
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
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
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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>
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
Format
application/pdf

References

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  • Pasolini, Pier Paolo, Saggi sulla letteratura e sull’arte, ed. by Walter Siti and Silvia De Laude, 2 vols (Milan: Mondadori, 1999)
  • Pasolini, Pier Paolo, Heretical Empiricism, trans. by Ben Lawton and Louise K. Barnett (Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2005)
  • 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>