10 The bilingual edition of the volume Tragedies I The collection of works by the immense Pier Paolo Pasolini, published by Prometeu—with the sponsorship of the Institut del Teatre and the Barcelona Provincial Council—constitutes a significant editorial contribution to the field of contemporary Catalan-language drama. Calderón, Fabulation and PillsThis powerful book allows us to explore a creative arc that ranges from the modern pastiche of Golden Age tragedy to the dissection of bourgeois family and society, and the necessary return to Greek myths as the matrix of ideologies in perpetual conflict. This energy undoubtedly resonates with the desperate vitality that marked the life of the Italian genius. In addition to restoring a body of work often relegated by the author's centrality in film and literature, this publication focuses on Pasolini as a political playwright, always attentive to the material and symbolic metamorphoses of Power in its purest form.

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