Dret, Llei i Poder a la història dels Atrides segons P. P. Pasolini

Resum

This study means to research the sense one of the senses that Pasolini confers to Atridaes history, in his translation of the Orestea of Aeschylus (1960). Following the semantic developement of conceptual meaning such as Right, Law and Power, from Aeschylus to Pasolini, and through the analysis of the textual variations there emerges an original point of view. The principal meaning that underlines the translation is explicitly political and specifically marxist. Moreover, widening the investigation to other work of Pasolini, such as the Pilade (1967, an ideal sequel of the trilogy, completely dominated by a pessimistic maybe nihilistic perspective) or to the documentary film Appunti per unOrestiade africana (1968-69, set in contemporary Africa), the analysis focuses on the principal difference between the ethical and political system of Aeschylus and that of Pasolini. The italian poet considers the Atridaes history as a symbolic possibility of a synthesis (the passage from the Erinies to the Eumenides, from the Irrational to the Rational without loosing the archaic point of the mythical past); but, in his text, we can clearly see his point of view, buried before in the original greek text: the synthesis the Rational is at the same time irrational and outreageous, still archaic but totally new. This synthetic possibility cannot exist in the contemporary world (capitalistic as it is and a world wich is based on consumerism). The drama of Orestes (and of all human beings) ends in the only way it can: the ethical and political disaster of the Pilade. If not we haveto move to another world, to another space/time situation, possibly the African one of the Appunti.