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Word: volgarita (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1976-1976
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...wrote in parables, but in his later work his symbols become estranged from any reality. "The Divine Mimesis" is full of wornout catchphrases of the Italian left; the souls Pasolini-Dante meets in his Inferno are "conformisti piccolo-borghesi" (petit-bourgeois conformists), and their sins are "il conformismo," "la volgarita," "la moralita." Pasolini always had a fondness for the antithesis, for the oxymoron; but in his recent writings the language degenerates into phrases that are cliches before they are coined: "the masses have chosen as their religion the condition of not having one, without knowing," vulgarity is the full bloom...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: A Roman Crime of Passion | 1/22/1976 | See Source »

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