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Tommaso helps out and saves a poor woman from drowning but the effort exacerbates his tuberculosis and this ultimately kills him. Pasolini’s novel is, of course, a traditional Bildungsroman, as we follow Tommaso’s development from being a poor outcast to a committed supporter of workers’ rights.
Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pantheon Books, 1992 - Fiction - 320 pages. "The most remarkable figure to have emerged in Italian arts and letters since the second World War" (Susan Sontag) writes the story...
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Pantheon Books, 1992
- reprint
- A Violent Life: A Novel
A Violent Life, first published in Italy in 1959, is the story of that generation. Written by the renowned film maker, poet, polemicist and novelist Pier Paolo Pasolini, A Violent Life is an uncanny fictional chronicle of the author's death foretold.
A Violent Life. Pier Paolo Pasolini. 3.97. 1,588 ratings109 reviews. 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.
Authors: Pier Paolo Pasolini, William Weaver. Summary: Not far from the splendour of tourist Rome are the slum suburbs. Here immigrants from village and countryside, lured to the capital by promises of work, gather and make a painful accommodation with the modern world.
Nov 3, 2022 · Penned by William Weaver, the English translation of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1959 novel Una vita violenta was published with the title A Violent Life by Jonathan Cape in early 1968.
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£8.90. Condition - Very Good. Out of stock. Very Good. Summary. 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.
