US Edition2 November 1975: the Assassination of Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Birth of a Myth
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On November 2nd Roberto Bolaño, Malcolm Lowry and Pier Paolo Pasolini, killed fifty years ago
Rome, Nov 2, 1975 It has been 50 years since that November 2, 1975, when all the hydroscale of Ostia, on the Roman coast, was killed Pier Paolo Pasolini, poet, writer, author, director, almost always misrepresented in his high figure of intellectual though very questionable from the moral point of view. A more honest reconstruction should also highlight some aspect of his deleted life. Just fifty years ago, in spite of what is now from the right…
Opio of the people, feed our intellectuals. Months before he was killed in November 1975, Pasolini faced Bernardo Bertulucci's team. Like almost always in football, he won Ancelotti.
"Fascism can return to the stage on condition that it is called antifascism," he said. A priori, nothing in common between Pier Paolo Pasolini, assassinated on November 2, 1975 on a vague plot of Ostia, and me. Yet, long before the excellent article by Jacques de Saint Victor "Pasolini: investigation into a murder full of mysteries" in Le Figaro of October 29, 2025, I was always strangely familiar, accomplice, with this tortured soul, with this …
Can one read the path of a famous artist in his time to a scandalous and violent death? What remains of the political and moral positions of an intellectual whose life, works and discourse cultivated contradiction? Have they still taken beyond the ideological and religious prisms of an era, which seemed to lead him in recent years towards a sometimes conservative reading grid, in rupture with the demands of the next generation?
On November 2, 1975, the intellectual was killed at the Ostia hydroscalo. Initiatives and commemorations to remember (ANSA)
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