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Abstract

De par sa structure fragmentaire et son organisation atypique, Petrolio de Pasolini démontre l'impossibilité de faire coïncider la fin d'un texte écrit avec les conclusions des processus interprétatifs qu'il génère. De l'aveu même de son narrateur, Petrolio peut être lu soit comme une pure et simple accumulation de matière textuelle, soit un palimpseste illimité, « sans fond », et renvoyant à l'in(dé) fini le moment de son propre achèvement. Une fois compris comme un mécanisme textuel à l'organisation ouverte, à même de faire circuler mais aussi de produire constamment de nouvelles informations, Petrolio peut être considéré comme un organisme autopoïétique et donc vivant.

Alternate abstract:

With its fragmentary and unconventional structural organization, Pasolini's Petrolio shows the impossibility of drawing a neat correspondence between the end of a written text and the conclusion of the interpretative processes it generates. As its narrator suggests, Petrolio can be read as an effect of the pure and simple accumulation of written matter, or a bottomless and transformative textual palimpsest that defers to the in(de)finite its own completion. More specifically, the text appears to maintain an invariant organizational unity while capturing, within its recursive loops of circulated information, the processes of signification that its interaction with the reader generates. Once it is conceived of as a dynamic textual mechanism, Petrolio can be read as an autopoietic - therefore living - organism.

Details

Title
«Questo romanzo non comincia». Indeterminabilità incipitaria ed explicitaria in Petrolio di Pier Paolo Pasolini
Author
Matteucci, Paolo 1 

 Dalhousie University, Canada 
Pages
35-52,180
Publication year
2017
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Gerflint
ISSN
17682649
e-ISSN
22612769
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Italian
ProQuest document ID
2453907337
Copyright
© 2017. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/fr/ (the “License”).  Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.