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This is Pasolini’s sub-proletariat novel, telling the tale of Tommaso Puzzilli, and his development, in the poorer part of Rome. His family had been bombed out during the Allied invasion of Italy and had moved to Rome, where they now live in a shanty town called Little Shanghai. The family lives in a hut.
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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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.
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,...
Feb 24, 2023 · A Violent Life (Una Vita Violenta) tells the story of a group of kids who live in one of the poorest and most disreputable neighborhoods in Rome. The story is set at the end of WWII. Thomas lives at the expense of others, like all his other companions, stealing and wasting time.
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Oct 25, 2007 · "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.
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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.
