Pasolini and the end: literature’s role in times of consumerism

Abstract

Based on the reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Corsair Writings and La nebbiosa, this article aims to develop two movements that may lead us to think about literature’s role in the contemporary times: the first one relates to how Pasolini’s journalistic criticism on consumer society may end up for assisting us to think about the current role of literature in our society; and the second one that reflects on how the tragic, as an aesthetic element that is retook through Pasolini’s fiction, is characterized as a critic to the bourgeoisie and as a writing mechanism to the establishment of literature’s role at the current moment.