Abstract

The text starts with mythological references in Pasolini's "Petrolio" and marks a correspondence between myth and outskirts, unofficial history and that literature which gets back Omero's "topoi". Like East remote world province is capable of preserving myth - according to Gadda - because province has a "short relationship" with dissolving "centre". It's Pasolini who recognizes an important virtue to marginalities of Italian outskirts.