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The guest : transfiguring indifference in "Teorema"
- In its elusive form between drama, novel and film, "Teorema" marks a 'new turning point in Pasolini's oeuvre'. Both the narrative and the style are remarkable, juxtaposing elements of different genres, nourishing the unresolved tensions within the film: the family members are shown in various scenes that follow one another in seemingly random order. Instead of a cohesive narrative unfolding in time, there reigns a sense of timelessness that gives rise to an oppressive feeling of drifting. Claudia Peppel's essay 'The Guest: Transfiguring Indifference in "Teorema"' explores the figure of the guest, which has always been closely connected with myth and whose appearance often triggers the dramatic conflict. Peppel focuses on "Teorema", in which a sensual stranger causes a bourgeois family to acknowledge its delusions. When he departs, the members of the family are left in a state of unfulfilled yearning, searching for new meaning. While critical literature on Pasolini regularly points to the importance of the figure of the guest but rarely analyzes it, Peppel discusses theories of the guest and hospitality to illuminate the role of the stranger in Pasolini's film. The guest's exceptional state, which is removed from everyday life and removes others from their everyday lives, is meticulously staged and resembles the evenly-suspended attention of the psychoanalyst. He triggers projections, desires, and, ultimately, existential crises.
Author: | Claudia PeppelORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-525983 |
URL: | https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-06/peppel_the-guest.pdf |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_06 |
ISBN: | 978-3-85132-681-9 |
ISSN: | 2627-731X |
Parent Title (English): | The scandal of self-contradiction : Pasolini's multistable subjectivities, geographies, traditions ; Cultural Inquiry ; 6 |
Publisher: | Turia + Kant |
Place of publication: | Wien |
Editor: | Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2019/12/17 |
Year of first Publication: | 2012 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2019/12/20 |
Tag: | Dramatic conflict; Guest; Hospitality; Strangers |
GND Keyword: | Pasolini, Pier Paolo; Teorema (Film); Gast <Motiv>; Gastfreundschaft <Motiv>; Fremder <Motiv>; Konflikt |
Page Number: | 12 |
First Page: | 105 |
Last Page: | 116 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 458872180 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 791 Öffentliche Darbietungen, Film, Rundfunk |
8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
Sammlung Musik, Theater, Film / Literatur zum Film | |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen |