Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 6.30 p.m.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death, the Italian Institute of Culture is pleased to host Prof. Roberto Carnero (University of Bologna), who will present his latest book, Pasolini e i giovani (Interlinea, 2024), in dialogue with Marco Bellardi (UCD).
Young people are a central presence in the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) – as characters, as objects of social analysis, as interlocutors – and the pedagogical tension, typical of Pasolini’s work, is very often directed towards them. After all, in his eyes, young people emblematically embodied the transformations taking place in Italian society and offered a three-dimensional image of it, so to speak: with their gestures, their behaviour, their bodies, even before their words. This essay by Roberto Carnero investigates this theme in the work of the late Pasolini, whose topicality and ability to speak, today, to new generations is highlighted, without avoiding questioning the ‘scandal’ caused by his life and death.
Roberto Carnero is professor of Contemporary Italian Literature at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, at the Department of Interpretation and Translation. He has worked on Leopardi, Scapigliatura, Crepuscolarismo, twentieth-century Italian fiction, travel literature, and didactics of literature. His latest books are: Pasolini. Morire per le idee (Bompiani 2022) and Pasolini e i giovani (Interlinea 2024). He is a literary critic and columnist for several newspapers, including ‘Avvenire’ and ‘Famiglia Cristiana’. Together with Giuseppe Iannaccone, at Treccani Giunti TVP he is the author of a successful handbook of Italian literature for three-year secondary schools, whose new edition (2025) is entitled Giorni giovani.
Marco Bellardi is Head of Italian at University College Dublin. He works mainly on 20th-century literature and cinema, novel theory and transmedia narratology.
A small wine reception will follow the event.
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