GREEK MYTHS. OEDIPUS: A TIMELY STORY THROUGHOUT THE OEUVRE OF PASOLINI AND CLAUS

In their multidisciplinary explorations Pier Paolo Pasolini and Hugo Claus call often upon the adaptations of Greek myths. It would not be going too far to say that the personal and literary universe of both writers is especially dominated by the Oedipus myth. My paper is focused on the surprising affinity between these two authors, in the way of actualizing and revisiting this myth to construct a cultural discourse and in the way that their works become sometimes a projection, onto this theme, of interior conflicts.