STUDIO SOCIOLOGICO-LINGUISTICO DEI ROMANZI DI PIER PAOLO PASOLINI. (ITALIAN TEXT)

Pier Paolo Pasolini, a controversial figure in contemporary Italian literature, is not only a poet, writer, scholar and film-maker, but equally well known as an observer of Italian social and political life.The chapters on the three novels of Pasolini are intended as a critical approach to the method mentioned above, so as to demonstrate how his ideology and his theoretical interpretation are applied in the thematic development of fiction. All his works are structurally divided by his personal way of conceiving the role of the intellectual in the modern world. There is in his case a latent contradiction of values. On one hand, the intellectual who, under the influence of Gramsci, tries to find a new role in the contemporary historical reality: on the other hand, his attachment to the cultural heritage from which he unsuccessfully tries to break away. Through this intense dualism, Pasolini also lived his personal diversita, forced by society to live a marginal role.His debut as a writer came when the atmosphere and thought that dominated the cultural scene of Italy during the Fifties were bound to lead to cultural and political reactions. Through these intense years of reaction to Neorealismo, Pasolini took on the role of interpreter of the myths of the Resistance, Marxism and Communism. In dialectical Marxism Pasolini thought he recognized the correct method of research which would be capable of interpreting the world, and of creating the conditions to change it. Consequently, the first two chapters of the thesis present a definition and analysis of Neorealismo and the attempt on Pasolini's part to find a new way of interpreting reality in the world of fiction. It is indispensable to investigate Pasolini's time and with it the problems in which he was involved in creating what he himself called "Neoespressionismo", a new artistic method. This new approach is based on the accurate reconstruction of the spoken language of the "borgatari" of the Roman slums, mixed with the more intellectual and literary language of the writer: Pasolini.