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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
The Divine Mimesis
Verlag:
Eris Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: EGQ884V
EAN: 9781967751235
Auf Lager:
2
Zustellung: Do, 10.09.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 30.–
Beschreibung
In The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini reimagines Dante's descent into Hell not as allegory but as lived, historical reality-urban, political, and deeply personal. Written in the final years of his life, this unfinished and fiercely experimental work leads us through the wreckage of modern Italy: housing projects, consumer culture, political betrayal, the spiritual void left in the wake of fascism and capitalism alike. The poet is no longer a pilgrim, but a witness-disillusioned, irreverent, obsessed with truth. And truth, here, is brutal. Pasolini tears into language, myth, and self with equal violence, creating a text that is part confession, part vision, part cultural autopsy. What begins as a mimicry of Dante becomes something darker and stranger-a descent not into a metaphysical Hell, but the concrete one of the present. The Divine Mimesis is not just a reckoning with a broken world, but with the broken idea of progress itself. Fragmented, volatile, and saturated with grief, this is Pasolini at his most unguarded and incendiary. A necessary document from one of the twentieth century's most fearless and singular minds.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Thomas E. Peterson
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 176