Stories from the City of God Sketches and Chronicles of Rome, 1950-1966

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.