Teatro

In 1966, possessed by a sudden creative impulse, Pier Paolo Pasolini composed six texts that constitute the core of his dramatic work. Poet, novelist, filmmaker, critic and journalist, nobody thought of defining him as a playwright, nor did he consider himself as such. But the truth is that, in his formative years, the theater was not absent from his creative horizon. In these six works all the themes that run through his life and work from beginning to end are brought together: the class struggle, communism, the oppressed (not only politically, but in all orders), friendship and loyalty ( Pílades), homosexuality, the paternal and maternal-filial relationship (Fabulation) -with the Freudian psychoanalytic tint that was still in vogue at the time-, the splitting of the characters (Pocilga and Orgía), sleep versus wakefulness (Calderón) -and the question of which of the two is more real-, the war, the concentration and extermination camp, anti-Semitism, prostitution, the suburb, the different... For the first time in Spanish, they are brought together in a single volume all of Pasolini's dramatic works translated by Amelia Pérez de Villar; In addition, these texts are accompanied by the Manifesto for a new theater, where he hints at his new theories looking for scenarios and themes different from the conventional ones. This is a book that was necessary to complement the prolific work of Pier Paolo Pasolini, one of the most recognized artists of his generation, not only for his valuable contribution to European cinematographic arts, but also for his prolific work that addressed different genres.