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Claudia Peppel
The Guest
Transfiguring Indifference in Teorema
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
Rights: © by the author(s). This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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The Guest
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Transfiguring Indifference in Teorema
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Claudia Peppel
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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.
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Vienna
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Turia + Kant
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2012
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Pasolini, Pier Paolo – Teorema
dramatic conflict
guest
hospitality
strangers
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© by the author(s)
This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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105
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116
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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. 105–16
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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>
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application/pdf
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References
- Deleuze, Gilles, Cinema 2: L’image-temps (Paris: Minuit, 1985)
- 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)
- 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>