Teorema

Probably best appreciated in conjunction with the much more famous film, of which this is neither its source material nor an after-the-fact novelization. According to its creator, both were conceived and created simultaneously ("the book had been painted with one hand while the other he was on a fre Leggi tutto

Leí este libro sin saber nada sobre él, por recomendación de mi mamá. Lo primero que me llamó la atención es la constante referencia que hace al lector y la ambigua de las descripciones: "sale del portal del liceo Parini (o quizás ya ha salido y regresa a su casa por las calles cotidianas)". Pero má Leggi tutto

kakvo skladno čisto savršenstvo stila ukusa i smisla - kao i film - my man never disappoints <3

Great book, a bit too modern and lyric for my taste, but probably better suited this way for transforming it into a movie. A movie that I've added to my watchlist :). The story seems simple: a very wealthy family in Milano, in a unspecified modern time (as the author mentions several times at the beg Leggi tutto

i'm a big believer in sometimes reading books which you are maybe a little too stupid for. i was initially really intimidated by pasolini's filmography because i consider myself someone who doesn't really know anything about film and diving into a director that's new to me is always a bit of a daunt Leggi tutto

Pasolini no sólo es un gran cineasta (o, al menos, lo es para mí); de hecho, también es un violento escritor. Si bien sólo he leído esta obra, he quedado plenamente convencido de que alguien que logra escribir una historia con tantos y tan diferentes registros narrativos (el poema, el microrrelato, Leggi tutto

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Theorem is better read as a companion to the 1968 film. In the introduction, Stuart Hood writes, “It was, as [Pasolini] explained, as if the book had been painted with one hand while with the other he was working on a fresco—the film.” It is the story of a wealthy Milan family Leggi tutto

My resolution for 2024 is to really get into Passolini, the gay Italian Marxist of my dreams, so this was my jumpstart. His filmmaking POV is instantly felt, the novel reads like a treatment, like the action slugs from a screenplay. Great to read something that is so overtly allegorical. It’s erotic Leggi tutto