Wallace P. Sillanpoa (essay date January 1981)
SOURCE: "Pasolini's Gramsci," in Modern Language Notes, Vol. 96, No. 1, January, 1981, pp. 120-37.
[In the following essay, Sillanpoa analyzes the relationship between Pasolini and the writings of Antonio Gramsci.]
When discussing those who perhaps most influenced the thought of the late Pier Paolo Pasolini, poet, novelist, critic and filmmaker, one critic recently spoke of 'il suo Gramsci." Implied in this possessive is the highly personal interpretation that Pasolini attached to the example...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1998 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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