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With his daringly intensifying, uncompromising and radical criticism in various art forms, Pier Paolo Pasolini, a distinguished intellectual, poet, writer, essayist, director, painter, dramatist, screenwriter, film theorist, and avant-gardist, kept announcing his end/death, with which he – as he had stated multiple times – was supposed to make sense of and fulfil his existence. His own – still unexplained – violent death could be read as a kind of a replica of crucifixion, trampling and punishment – and also as a way of reinforcing the heroism that had been stopped forever. All the senseless/sensible deaths are linked with the key protagonists of his novels, films and theatre works.

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