This article is situated in the field of the reception theories and works with the concept of "reading as creative act", developed by Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser. Seeing in the screenplay a textual structure that produces literary images, we choose as our object the text Il Decameron, written by Pier Paolo Pasolini based on Boccaccio's work. In the analysis, we investigate the poetic effects produced by the rereading of the medieval text, indicating the transformations that Boccaccio's realism takes in Pasolini's language. Therefore, we remark the importance that the realities of sex and death acquire in the screenplay, observing how the author conjugates these themes to the reflections he does on his contemporaneity.
reading; images; screenplay; realism