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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
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- A Violent Life: A Novel
His second neorealistic novel, A Violent Life (1959), brought him greater success. Before long, however, he rejected neorealism and began to live for art's sake. Thereafter, except for what he...
Nov 3, 2022 · Download PDF. 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...
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.
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.
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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.
