Pavese e Pasolini

Mitologie a confronto

Abstract

Pavese and Pasolini are undoubtedly two of the greatest authors of 20th-century Italian literature: both lovers of classical texts, from Homer to One Thousand and One Nights, they share a religious sense of life or, as Sanguineti suggests, even a Catholicism, which is both intimate and problematic, and a special love for the natural, archaic and primitive landscapes of their childhood. Nevertheless, Pasolini speaks in derogatory terms of Pavese. This article aims to investigate the ambiguities of their relationship, starting from the peculiarities of their American dream, their reflections on cinema and mythology, which in the case of Pavese takes above all the appearance of a refuge, while in Pasolini is subjugated to the principle of reality.