The work of Pier Paolo Pasolini forms an archipelago of poems, stories, essays, interventions, films, and documents that invite constant inquiry. For anyone wishing to embark on such a journey of exploration, a map and a compass can be helpful, at the very least.

In the form of an alphabet (which its author understands as an "agile, synthetic, essential instrument"), this book offers concepts and slogans (a map) and critical orientations (a compass) for entering Pasolini's vast and complex literary and cinematic production. By attempting to convey the characteristic movement of this production (from one work to another, from one genre to another, from one expressive form to another), it reveals a framework that grows over time, articulated in notions such as "sacred" or "death," in figures such as the father, or images such as hair, the rose, fireflies, the raven… A framework that, in its mobility, traverses and subverts any preconceived idea.

Reviews:

“All the Pier Paolos are here. The polemicist. The ethnologist. The filmmaker. The social critic. The columnist. The novelist. The linguist […]. The Alphabet recreates the Pasolinian universe in an orderly yet transversal way.” (El Diario de Sevilla)

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“Pasolini forged a total body of work in which he intertwines the biographical and the conceptual; he made a life devoted to poetry, the novel, theater, and above all, film, into a work of art […]. The Trotta publishing house now releases a Pasolini Alphabet, a map of concepts (and of characters, titles, places) that offers firm guidance in the complex jungle of that work.” (Reading, El Mundo)

"This book thus traces a representative map of the vast creative world of a multifaceted Pasolini, both in his cinematic and literary work, and at the same time offers, with its critical approaches and interpretive analyses, a compass that allows us to navigate his intellectual and human complexity." (Encuentros de Lecturas Magazine)