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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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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
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.
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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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