“Pasolini, a soul divided in two”, the book by Rosella Lisoni

It is in distribution from April 26th and available on the publisher’s website Intermedia Editions the new book by Rosella Lisoni “Pasolini, a soul divided in two”a dialogue between the author and Pier Paolo Pasolini, a walk along the path of his art, without omitting mention of his family history, the places of his heart, his feminine universe, his many journeys that reveal an interior journey that the great intellectual takes within his own soul. Fragments of poetry, fiction, cinema and the feeling of the sacred that characterizes the work of the most controversial and exciting author of the twentieth century. The pages of Lisoni, a great scholar and expert on Pasolini’s work, allow us to enter the literary, poetic, cinematographic, but also civil and political world of this author who never stops speaking to posterity.

PASOLINI AND TUSCIA

Among the many themes touched by Lisoni, there is also the one relating to the special relationship that he had with Tuscia in the second part of his life. In the early sixties, together with the screenwriter Piero Gherardi and the actor Franco Interlenghi he stayed in Viterbo to watch some films. A place of light, of peace, of infinite beauty, the landscape of Tuscia took him back to his beloved Friuli, to the simple and true life, to the peasant world with its rhythms and traditions. In Chia, where he filmed “The Gospel according to Matthew”, he purchased the medieval tower, but in the province of Viterbo he also fought to support the birth of the University of Viterbo and against the degradation, linked to building speculation, which gripped Orte, not to mention then of the many films set in this land. The first presentation of the book will take place on Saturday 4 May in the youth space il Cielo in una stanza in Viterbo, via Porsenna in the Santa Barbara district.

THE AUTHOR

Rosella Lisoni, born in Marta in 1964, graduated in Modern Languages ​​and Literatures with a thesis on the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini. She began her career teaching French and since 1988 she has worked at the University of Tuscia. She organizes cultural events in Viterbo and its province. She is the author of: “Eros and thanatos in The Canterbury Tales of Pier Paolo Pasolini”, winner of the Salvatore Quasimodo prize, special mention of merit for “Aurora una di noi” and “The last Pasolini between form and reality”, by an introductory essay to Piero Zuccaro’s text “Pasolinarie dramaturgiche in 4 D” and “Pasolini’s places” edited by Carlo Serafini and Stefano Pifferi. You are president of the cultural association La torre della Tuscia.