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...When I saw him I wished I was a journalist. To be able to describe the emotion I felt seeing Pier Paolo Pasolini dead, on the ground, at that hour, in that place, and in that sickeningly mutilated state...
...rescue squad mopped up the remains of Pier Paolo Pasolini, 52 years old, poet, filmmaker, and social agitator, from the ruts of the dirt road in the early hours of Sunday, November 2nd. By that afternoon, all Rome knew that one of her most famous artists-in-residence had been found mangled in the midst of the slums of Ostia, a Roman suburb, on a strip of earth between huts of corrugated tin. That he had been beaten to death in a brawl with a (male) prostitute, a seventeen-year-old streetwalker. Monday Rome was in an uproar. L'Unita...
...neither the event nor the man involved were accurately perceived by those who saw Pasolini as a radical Communist and a great poet, or who saw his murder as a martyrdom. Pasolini was not terribly progressive, as compared with other Italian Communist poets such as Elio Vittorini, or Cesare Pavese. Pasolini's books denounced the social problems he saw around him; in "Ragazzi di Vita" ("Beach Boys of the City" and "Vita Violenta" ("Violent Life"), his two best-known prose works, he decried the barriers of class in contemporary Italy, the profound social divisions between regions, cities, even neighborhoods...
...Pasolini's intellectualism influenced his politics and kept him from adopting a stance that was really progressive (and-or practical), so his political conscience interferred with his artistic development, pushing his work further and further towards simplistic allegory. His early pastoral poetry hardened into a black-and-white vision in his later works. Le Cenere di Gramsci written in the early fifties, already sees the world divided between an innocent proletariat (an urbanized "noble savage") and an evil, decadent bourgeoisie. His prose development follows a similar pattern; a growing rigidity of perception is apparent when one compares "Ragazzi di vita...
...Pasolini was a martyr, he died for no cause. No one really knows who killed him, or why, but for the moment it appears to have been a killing motivated by sexual passions. The young boy who has confessed to the crime, "Pino" Pelosi, said he did it "because he (Pasolini) wanted to change roles. I said no, the agreement was that I got to be the man. So he hit me and called me a dirty pig. And then I didn't see anything any more and started hitting him and hitting him as hard as I could." Whether...