Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pasolini è diventato famoso con questo romanzo acre, violento, fortissimo. La miseria italiana, i baraccati, l'odore della sporcizia e dei panni vecchi, le periferie squallide, le estati roventi che ridestano appetiti pressoché bestiali, hanno trovato un descrittore commosso e lirico, tenuto saldamente al terreno (in quegli anni) da una severa fede politica.

"In the summer of 1959, Pier Paolo Pasolini traveled the entire Italian coastline at the wheel of a Fiat 1100. His diary, The Long Road of Sand, was published in three installments in the magazine Successo. Forty years after the author's death, the photographer Philippe Séclier revisits this journey in his series of black-and-white photographs. This book presents the full text of Pasolini's The Long Road of Sand, including numerous unpublished passages, together with the original typescript"--amazon.com.

A translated collection of Pasolini's prose, poetry, essays, reviews of books, etc., including his well-known "I Know" litany.

"Stories from the City of God collects legendary Italiam filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini's short fiction and nonfiction from 1950 to 1966. In these pieces, we see the machinations of the creative mind in consideration of the character of Rome after World War II." "Pasolini presents here a portrait of the city that is at once poignant and intimate, as honest as if it were his journal. We find artistic witness to the customs, dialect, squalor, and beauty of the ancient imperial capital that has succumbed to modern warfare, marginalization, and mass culture." "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." "Pasolini's art develops throughout the works collected here, from his early lyricism to tragicomic outlines for screenplays, and finally the maturation of his Neo-realism in eight of his chronicles that depict his life in Roman shantytowns."--Jacket.

Photographer Philippe Séclier follows the same route on the Italian coast taken by Pasolini for Successo magazine in 1959. Includes the full text of Pasolini's original essays, previously unpublished material, and photographs by Séclier.

"Pier Paolo Pasolini was one of the most outstanding, enigmatic characters of the European intelligentsia in the latter half of the twentieth century. Published in commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of Pasolini's death, this book provides insight into his moral concepts and ideas through his essays, films, drawings, and paintings. Among the book's many explorations is that, inherent in Pasolini's understanding of art and his world view, was the notion of violent death, which, ultimately, he may have consciously sought out in order to reconcile his life and work."--BOOK JACKET

Interview with P. P. Pasolini, 1969, published for the first time.