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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.
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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.
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
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. Weaver’s renditio...
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