Εισαγωγή στις έννοιες του καλού και του κακού στη ζωή και στο έργο των Ναγκίμπ Μαχφούζ και Πιερ Πάολο Παζολίνι

Abstract

The paper focuses on the study of Naguib Mahfuz's novel Awlâd H' âratinâ (1959) and the narratives Romans (19'48-19'50) and Racconti Romani (1950-1966) by the writer, film director and theorist Pier Paolo Pasolini. The two writers had much in common, both in their personal life and the diversity of their work. They both began their lives in a time and place which deeply affected and formed them. In deep poverty, they tried to represent -with sympathy and understanding- a reality that had not been represented before, nourished by politics and religion. Both writers experienced a long, painful period of imposed silence: that was when Mahfuz started writing Awlâd H' âratinâ and Pasolini began the Racconti Romani. In Awlâd H'âratinâ, the Gebelawi children symbolize angel-children or demon-children, consonantly with the alternation οι good and evil·, in Romans, the youngsters embody at the same time the diabolic and the angelic element, through their inborn religiousness. In the works of both writers, the unbroken succession οι good and evil, light ana dark, turns time into a power of decisive importance. But while in Awlâd H âratinâ the dark bears the seed of hope to see cruelty come to an end, in Racconti Romani the boys from the poor suburbs of Rome live in darkness carrying, unaware, the light in them.