Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ragazzi di vita

Scritti corsari

Life on the outskirts of modern Rome, seen as an inferno.

Pocket Poets Number 41

Roman Poems

Theorem is the most enigmatic of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s four novels. The book started as a poem and took shape as a film, also called Theorem, before turning at last into a work of fiction. In short prose chapters interspersed with stark passages of poetry, Pasolini tells a story of transfiguration and trauma. To the suburban mansion of a prosperous Milanese businessman comes a mysterious and beautiful young man who invites himself to stay. From the beginning he exercises a strange fascination on the inhabitants of the house, and soon everyone, from the busy father to the frustrated mother, from the yearning daughter to the weak-willed son to the housemaid from the country, has fallen in love with him. Then, as mysteriously as he appeared, the infatuating young man departs. How will these people he has touched so deeply do without him? Is there a passage out of the spiritual desert of modern capitalism into a new awakening, both of the senses and of the soul? Only questions remain at the end of a book that is at once a bedroom comedy, a political novel, and a religious parable.

Theorem

Teorema

Tim Parks

Boys Alive

Una vita violenta

Il fascismo degli antifascisti

Petrolio

حياة عنيفة

Walter Siti

Marina Harss

The sketches portray the impoverished masses that Pasolini calls the sub-proletariat, those who live under third world conditions and for whom simple pleasures, such as a blue sweater in a storefront window, are completely out of reach. In the chronicles, the author faithfully renders life in the infinite stretches of public housing on the periphery of the city.

Sketches and Chronicles of Rome, 1950-1966

Stories from the City of God

Not far from tourist Rome are the slum suburbs. Here immigrants lured to the capital by promises of work, gather and make accommodation with the modern world. A new generation emerges, brutal, vulnerable, and full of unreal hopes. First published in Italy in 1958, this is their story.

A Violent Life

L'odore dell'India

"Sex, death, political passion, these are the simple objects to which I give my elegiac heart" Winner of the first Renato Poggioli/William Weaver Award of PEN American Center Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the most outspoken and original Italian writer of his generation, the author of distinguished and controversial novels and plays, political and literary criticism, and, above all, poetry. His poems are widely considered the most important contribution to Italian literature since Montale and, along with the work of Brecht and Neruda, represent the most powerful political poetry of the century. This dual-language book presents his major poems as well as an autobiographical essay, which together make for an outstanding introduction to Pasolini's exceptional gifts as a poet.

Poems

Il caos

Transhumanar y organizar

Une vie violente

Roberto Chiesi

La rage est un poème filmique en prose et en vers, un essai polémique mêlant radicalité et lyrisme. On y trouve le Pasolini le plus âpre et le plus clairvoyant. Traduit en français pour la première fois, La rage est le texte littéraire le plus explicitement politique de Pasolini. En interrogeant les événements et la société de son temps, avant l'avènement définitif de l'uniformisation, La rage éclaire aussi, d'une façon saisissante, notre temps. "La joie de l'Américain qui se sent identique à un autre million d'Américains dans l'amour de la démocratie : voilà la maladie du monde futur ! Quand le monde classique sera épuisé — quand tous les paysans et les artisans seront morts — quand l'industrie aura rendu inarrêtable le cycle de la production et de la consommation — alors notre histoire prendra fin."

La rage

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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