The Divine Mimesis

by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Written between 1963 and 1967, The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini's imitation of the early cantos of the Inferno, offers a searing critique of Italian society and the intelligentsia of the 1960s. It is also a self-critique by the author of The Ashes of Gramsci (1957) who saw the civic world evoked by that book fading absolutely from view. By the mid-1960s, Pasolini theorized, the Italian language had sacrificed its connotative expressiveness for the sake...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1940625076
• ISBN13: 9781940625072
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Contra Mundum Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"