Il sogno di una cosa was Pasolini’s first novel. He wrote it during the brief spell that he was active for the Friulian division of the Partito Comunista Italiano, which ended in 1949 when the party expelled him for “immoral behaviour”. But the text was not published until 1962 when Pasolini lived in Rome. At that time he had already made his name with the…
Georg Heym (1887-1912) was a German writer and poet who is ranked among the most important representatives of early literary Expressionism. Moloko Plus, run by Ralf Friel from Schönebeck, has just published a selection of dark and stark expressionist prose pieces by Georg Heym and combined them with 13 drawings by Dutch artist Ben Schot….
Belgian artist Thierry De Cordier (1954) was once gifted a small book with the hand written title ‘Heracleitos’ on the cover. The booklet, barely eight pages, contained in Dutch texts by Heraclitus, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher whose original writings are lost and who is only known through the quotations of later authors. At the time,…