Completely relevant anniversaries – Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Pier Paolo Pasolini, whose notoriously controversial death happened 40 years ago to the day, was the last truly great Italian intellectual of the XX century: greater than Calvino – who was maybe better than him as a novelist, but was not a poet, an essayist and most of all a film maker as PPP – and Leonardo Sciascia, whose musings on mafia-permeated Sicily were, despite their courage, more parochial.

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The age of snooping

hobsbawm-booksDa sem­pre cele­brato modello di demo­cra­zia libe­rale, la Gran Bre­tagna gode di una fama con­so­li­data, quella di essere un luogo tol­le­rante, una nazione che ha sem­pre accolto rifugiati poli­tici dis­si­denti e anche rivo­lu­zio­nari: Marx, Her­zen, Baku­nin, tanto per citarne tre. Vero, soprat­tutto per­ché costoro ave­vano di solito l’attenuante di rivol­gere altrove le loro peri­co­lose mire insur­re­zio­nali. Continua a leggere “The age of snooping”