The contradiction of being named Pier Paolo is the title of a new dialogue of On Mondays, at Círculo, dedicated to Pasolini Year, which is part of the publication of The Dream of the Centaur: Conversations with Pier Paolo Pasolini by Jean Duflot (Ed. Crumbs are also bread). Participate in this event Juan Barja y Patxi Lancerswho have written two essays for the book, as well as its editor, Aurora Freijo.

This interview that journalist Jean Duflot conducted with Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1970 explores the great interests of the artist and intellectual, revealing his own plurality, his struggles, ambiguities and, essentially, his passion for committed truth, like a parrhesiast who carried within himself the contradiction of his own name: Pier (Peter) Paolo (Paul).

From his mother tongue, Friulian, his difficult relationship with his father, homosexuality, his discovery of Gramsci, and his warning against the new fascism, to his manifesto on theater and his reading, as an author, of some of his works (Accattone, Theorem, Porcile, Oedipus re o MedeaThis volume, which also includes poems and letters, paints a possible portrait of the man who desecrated the whitewashed tombs of intellectual hypocrisy and moral conformism of his time. A man of the past, but "more modern than the moderns," unclassifiable and, therefore, an outcast.