«Vittoria sui contrari»: note all'Orestiade di Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pasolini’s translation of Aeschylus’ Oresteia (1960), though disapproved by many scholars, is a very valuable piece of poetry and textual interpretation. Pasolini transferred his interpretation of the trilogy into his translation, by means of a widespread process of ‘linguistic re-functioning’. Through the compared analysis of Pasolini’s translation, his other works and the three translations of Oresteia to which he referred, this paper tries to identify and contextualize the terms of this process.

Pasolini’s translation of Aeschylus’ Oresteia (1960), though disapproved by many scholars for the way it was made, is a very valuable piece of poetry and textual interpretation. Pasolini transferred his interpretation of the trilogy into his translation, by means of a widespread process of ‘linguistic re-functioning’. Through the compared analysis of Pasolini’s translation, his other works and the three translations of Oresteia to which he referred, this paper tries to identify and contextualize the terms of this process.