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Tacita Dean’s work is diverse and cerebral, caught up with moments of experience and the vagaries of recollection, both public and private.

“A poet who is not also a heretic,” Aldo tells me as I lean forward to catch his words, “is not a poet.” As for the miller Menocchio and for Pasolini, heresy was connatured to Federico’s persona—not a mere intellectual exercise. For Pasolini and Federico, furthermore, it was no longer only about the Catholic Church. It had to do, instead, with their inability and unwillingness to participate in the reigning ideologies of their time: petty bourgeois propriety, at first, and the hedonism that crept behind the countercultural movements of the ’60s and ’70s, later, when capitalist ...

From the blog of Jonathan Sacks at The Times of Israel

Farewell to a friend of social harmony (1550–2000)

‘Looking at my native country from outside opened completely new ways of thinking.’