In Italy, the memory of Pasolini remains vivid, fifty years after his death.
November 2, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the death of the Italian writer and filmmaker, assassinated on a beach. The Italian press pays tribute to this figure who left his mark on 20th-century Italy with his incisive observations of the country's social transformations. A vision with prophetic overtones, coupled with a legacy that remains influential.
Writer, filmmaker, critic, and social commentator of great insight, Pasolini was a man of many facets. Fifty years after his death on the beach at Ostia, near Rome, Pier Paolo “remains an indelible myth,” asserts Il Venerdì La Repubblica . The intellectual possessed all the characteristics of a myth even during his lifetime: “memory, adaptability, and ambivalence, inspiring both admiration and unease, legend and boredom, contempt and consecration.”
Like much of the Italian press, the weekly magazine pays tribute to him by dedicating its front page to this singular figure of 20th-century Italy. A whole series of events and reissues testify to the still-pervasive influence of this man who often scandalized his contemporaries and who remains considered one of the most brilliant intellectuals of the last century.
Especially since the memory of his death on November 2, 1975, at the age of 53, remains shrouded in mystery to this day. While a young Italian named Giuseppe Pelosi was convicted of his murder in 1976, many believe that all the circumstances have not been clarified and that it was a political assassination.
In articles like those collected in Corsair Writings (1975, translated into French c
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