Pl.it (Dec 2015)

Afryka Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego i Piera Paola Pasoliniego [Africa seen by Ryszard Kapuściński and Pier Paolo Pasolini]

  • Andrea F. De Carlo

Journal volume & issue
no. 6
pp. 155 – 171

Abstract

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Ryszard Kapuściński (1932-2007) and Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) are two intellectuals who in different times and places, each with his own cultural background, decided to push their artistic and intellectual research beyond the borders of pure literary expression in order to understand an increasingly indecipherable and threatening present. Two intellectuals in many ways very different from each other, but with a common passion – Africa. The Black Continent, the privileged object of their reflections, represents an original world, untouched by the capitalist and neo-imperialistic aspirations of poisoned Western society, thus becoming a mixture of romantic fantasies and dreams of unteachable regenerations.

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