The Divine Mimesis - Paperback

by Pier Paolo Pasolini (Author), Thomas E. Peterson (Translator)

In The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini reimagines Dante's descent into Hell not as allegory but as lived, historical reality--urban, political, and deeply personal. Written in the final years of his life, this unfinished and fiercely experimental work leads us through the wreckage of modern Italy: housing projects, consumer culture, political betrayal, the spiritual void left in the wake of fascism and capitalism alike. The poet is no longer a pilgrim, but a witness--disillusioned, irreverent, obsessed with truth.And truth, here, is brutal. Pasolini tears into language, myth, and self with equal violence, creating a text that is part confession, part vision, part cultural autopsy.

Author Biography

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was an Italian poet, filmmaker, novelist, and public intellectual--one of the most uncompromising voices of the twentieth century. A fierce critic of consumerism, bourgeois culture, and political hypocrisy, he wrote with prophetic urgency and lyrical precision.