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Merda, potere e verità (da San Francesco a Wat)

On the grounds of crucial theoretical frameworks (provided by Christian Enzensberger, Francesco Orlando, Sigmund Freud, Mary Douglas and others) and by referring to a wide range of literary and artistic examples (Saint Francis, Dario Fo, Tommaso Stigliani, Pina Bausch, Tadeusz Kantor, Simone Cristicchi, Dante, the Comedy of Art, Alfred Jarry, Victor Hugo, Pasolini, Duchamp, Piero Manzoni, Thomas Mann, Sandro Penna and many others), the author argues that all great art is excrementitious and at the same time political: it articulates a satire of the ugliness of the world, a free song coming

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