The Divine Mimesis

In The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini reimagines Dante's descent into Hell not as allegory but as lived, historical reality--urban, political, and deeply personal.

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was an Italian poet, filmmaker, novelist, and public intellectual--one of the most uncompromising voices of the twentieth century. A fierce critic of consumerism, bourgeois culture, and political hypocrisy, he wrote with prophetic urgency and lyrical precision.