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A Violent Life Pier Paolo Pasolini
Laurence King 1857549635 / 9781857549638 Paperback New
Revealing that a beautiful and cultured European city has a dark and dangerous underbelly, this novel chronicles the violent lives of Rome's slum inhabitants. Born in a shantytown, Tommaso Puzzilli was once young and hopeful, but he soon succumbs to life on the streets, where he must resort to crime and prostitution simply to stay alive. Written by an author who ultimately suffered the same chilling fate as one of his characters, this fictional account offers a startling portrait of the very real tragedies of urban poverty.
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49.95 AUD
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Roman Poems Pier Paolo Pasolini; translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Francesca Valente; preface by Alberto Moravia
City Lights 0872861872 / 9780872861879 Paperback New
The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet-the most important civil poet according to Alberto Moravia in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the political turmoil of his country. In 1949 after his homosexuality led the Italian Communist Party to expel him on charges of moral and political unworthiness Pasolini fled to Rome. This selection of poems from his early impoverished days on the outskirts of Rome to his last (with a backward longing glance at his native Frill) is at the center of his poetic and filmic vision of modern Italian life as an Inferno. Pier Paolo Pasolini was born in 1922 in Bologna. In addition to the films for which he is world famous he wrote novels poetry and social and cultural criticism. He was murdered in 1975.
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Stories From The City Of God Pier Paolo Pasolini; Walter Siti, editor; Marina Harss, translator
Handsel 1590510488 / 9781590510483 Hardcover New
Pasolini should be better known in English as a writer—as a poet novelist and journalist—and this volume provides a good introduction. It's a collection of short pieces written between 1950 when Pasolini arrived in Rome the city of God from his native Friuli and 1966 and published mainly in newspapers and periodicals. The first half of the book is a stroll through lowlife Rome—the ragazzi (street boys) selling chestnuts on the Ponte Garibaldi or diving off a float in the Tiber or stealing fish from the city market to sell in Testaccio. The pieces in the second half range from commentary on Roman slang and on housing for the poor to an account of a day spent with Alberto Moravia. Throughout the main character is the city where beauty and ugliness go hand in hand: The latter renders the former touching and human. The former allows us to forget the latter.
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32.95 AUD
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