Pier Paolo Pasolini was also a journalist. The experience linked to mass media is not the best known, celebrated and appreciated of its intellectual commitment, but it is certainly not the least important or rich. On the contrary. It will be broken only at the Ostia hydroscal the night between the first and 2 November 1975: the last lutera letter (addressed to Italo Calvino) is published on “Il Mondo” on October 30, 1975. A day before its brutal and still unsolved assassination. Domenico Marino performs a detailed reconstructioncommented and documented of Pasolini’s publicity experiences: from the Bolognese beginnings to the Lutheran and Corsara season of maturity. Thirty years of articles and sections, reports, reflections and saber.
The book contains two exclusive interviews with Giulia Maria Crespi and Piero Otto, at the time, respectively, publisher and director of the “Corriere della Sera”, who tell unpublished details relating to man as well as the journalist. The book also fully publishes the final report of the Parliamentary Anti -Mafia Commission which during the XVIII legislature investigated the crime Pasolini, first of all deepening the track that binds the murder to the cinematographic activity of the intellectual and in particular to the theft of the original film of his film Salò or the 120 days of Sodoma. “The book by Domenico Marino retraces documentary and inspire carefully criticizes the intellectual Pasolini road, focusing on the attitude of intervention in public speech as something anything but occasional, but unlike the constitutive of his posture as a man and writer”, writes in the preface the ordinary professor of Italian literature contemporary to the Lumsa, as well as among the most important scholars of Pasolini, Caterina Verbaro.
Which adds: “This book has the advantage of setting up an important summary of this journalistic writing activity (see for example the precious chronology at the end of the volume), collecting the data and reconstructing its ratio as in a unitary plot, entering the merits of the themes and treatment, summarizing the contents and events connected to the most important articles, highlighting the characteristics of the different stages of the different stages”. And finally, always Professor Verbaro in the preface, he concludes indicating “two further merits of this book on the journalist Pasolini. The first consists in reminding us of the impact force that these articles had in provincial and respectable Italy of the early seventies, a disruptive and opposite force that only the journalistic layout, and certainly not that of the meridians, is able to return, and which can be experienced through the reproductions of some newspaper pages present in the book. The second merit instead concerns two very precious passages of the volume, the unpublished interviews of Marino to Piero Ottone and Giulia Crespi, who, as in a real journalistic “scoop”, tell the background of that sensational landing, in 1973, of the best known opposition intellectual on the pages of the largest Italian newspaper, intimately conservative for territorial and class vocation “.