Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922–75),Italian poet, writer, and film director. In 1974 he directed Il fiore delle mille e una notte (The Flower of The Thousand and One Nights), part of the ‘trilogy of life’ which also included the Decameron (1971) and I racconti di Canterbury (1972). Pasolini does away with The Arabian Nights frame tale, and adapts a number of its tales into a complexly embedded narrative structure. The film is a celebration of sexual delights, and in its polemic mythicizing of a homoerotic, non‐Western, peasant society is one of the most suggestive rewritings of the Nights.
Nancy Canepa
Bibliography
Rumble, Patrick, ‘Stylistic Contamination in the Trilogia della vita: The Case of Il fiore delle mille e una notte’, in Patrick Rumble and Bart Testa (eds.), Pier Paolo Pasolini: Contemporary Perspectives...
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