In the early hours of November 2, 1975, a patrol of the carabinieri found the body of Pier Paolo Pasolini in a field in Ostia, on the outskirts of Rome. The event shocked the society of the time, of which the artist had been one of its most brilliant and controversial voices. Fifty years after his murder, The Seven Lives of Pasolini reclaims his legacy to demonstrate, if needed, the complexity and relevance of an unclassifiable author.
Through seven unpublished essays, written by Pablo Caldera, Mario Colleoni, Juan Gallego Benot, Pedro Víllora, Déborah García, Silvia Martín Gutiérrez, and Andrés Catalán, this book offers a journey through the multiple facets of the Italian creator: the filmmaker, the novelist, the painter, the playwright, the lover, the philosopher, and the poet. It is not a biography nor a conventional academic study, but a personal and critical reading of each of those lives that inhabited Pasolini, with a foreword by the writer Vicente Monroy.
From his uncomfortable and transgressive cinema to his political commitment, passing through his passion for the beauty found on the margins, The Seven Lives of Pasolini explores the intensity and diversity of a universe that overflowed the limits of art and thought. It is also a mirror of the present: an invitation to reread the artist as a radically contemporary figure.
