Glauber Rocha con e contro Pasolini

pp: 21-29 DOI: 10.7371/70160

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The article examines both content and style in two of Glauber Rochaâ€
™
s writings on Pier Paolo Pasolini
an Italian translation is published below. Um intelectual europeu (A European Intellectual) was written in 1974 and first published in Portuguese in 1983
two years after the authorâ€
™
s death. In a vehement rejection of the increasingly paternalist attitude of Pasoliniâ€
™
s last few films
Glauber Rocha hints satirically at the colonialist implications in his representation of sexuality. Amor de macho (A Manâ€
™
s Love) was published in 1975
just a few days after Pasoliniâ€
™
s assassination
in the alternative Brazilian magazine Â«O PasquimÂ». Glauber Rocha was living in exile in Paris at the time because of the military government ruling his country. In this piece
he evokes Pasolini as a kind of dopplegÃ¤nger
whose death calls forth a host of memories and ghosts from the past
in an allegorical flow of figures and images that is very similar to the style of his films