Description
A wealthy Milanese family is thrown into upheaval when a mysterious young stranger enters their lives—charming, unsettling, and ultimately transforming each member in ways they cannot control. As the father renounces his possessions, the children fracture their futures, and the mother pursues desire with a hunger that feels both liberating and destructive, Pasolini builds an allegory of spiritual crisis and social rupture. Blending mystical vision with Marxist critique, the story explores themes of power, class privilege, sexuality, faith, and the violent cost of awakening. Written in Pasolini’s distinctive, lyrical-prose style—part parable, part poem—this is a work of transfiguration that lingers like a “theorem”: precise in its logic, impossible to fully resolve.
Available Editions
paperback
Quartet Books
Published Jan 1, 1992
182 pages
ISBN: 0704301571
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Details
First Published
1992
Language
ita
Translation
From: ita
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Theorem by Pier Paolo Pasolini.