Passion and philology

Abstract

This article addresses the untimely relationship between criticism and language that emerged in Pasolini’s youth, which will be a changeable constant throughout his brief life. Giorgio Agamben points out that the young Pasolini does not subdue the Friulian dialect to the constitutional language, as he wants to say with the dialect high, difficult things, with greater freshness and power. Thus, the criticism operated by Pasolini mobilized eruptive debates, in which language shocked as inventum (institutional language) and language as inventio (language-poetry), for this confrontation to arise a critical and inventive philology.