Pier Paolo Pasolini Norman MacAfee Luciano Martinengo
"Sex, death, political passion, these are the simple objects to which I give my elegiac heart"
Winner of the first Renato Poggioli/William Weaver Award of PEN American Center
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the most outspoken and original Italian writer of his generation, the author of distinguished and controversial novels and plays, political and literary criticism, and, above all, poetry. His poems are widely considered the most important contribution to Italian literature since Montale and, along with the...
"Sex, death, political passion, these are the simple objects to which I give my elegiac heart"
Pier Paolo Pasolini Francesca Valente Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet--the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the political turmoil of his country. In 1949, after his homosexuality led the Italian Communist Party to expel him on charges of -moral and political unworthiness, - Pasolini fled to Rome. This selection of poems from his early impoverished days on the outskirts of Rome to his last (with a backward longing glance at his native Friuli) is at the...
The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet--the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in th...
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922 1975) was a major cultural figure in post-WWII Italy, well-known as a poet, novelist, communist intellectual, and filmmaker. In Danger is the first anthology in English devoted to his political and literary essays, with a generous selection of his poetry. Against the backdrop of post-war Italy, and through the mid-'70s, Pasolini's writings provide a fascinating portrait of a Europe in which fascists and communists violently clashed for power and where journalists ran great risks. The controversial and openly gay Pasolini was murdered at the age of...
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922 1975) was a major cultural figure in post-WWII Italy, well-known as a poet, novelist, communist intellectual, and filmmak...
Widely admired as a film director, Pasolini's talents as a novelist, poet and political essayist are rarely recognised outside Italy. This vision of his visit to India, translated by David Clive Price, provides a fascinating insight into India and into Pasolini's own obsessions and ideals.
Widely admired as a film director, Pasolini's talents as a novelist, poet and political essayist are rarely recognised outside Italy. This vision of h...
Pier Paolo Pasolini Stephen Sartarelli James Ivory
Most people outside Italy know Pier Paolo Pasolini for his films, many of which began as literary works"Arabian Nights," "The Gospel According to Matthew," "The Decameron," and "The Canterbury Tales" among them. What most people are not aware of is that he was primarily a poet, publishing nineteen books of poems during his lifetime, as well as a visual artist, novelist, playwright, and journalist. Half a dozen of these books have been excerpted and published in English over the years, but even if one were to read all of those, the wide range of poetic styles and subjects that occupied...
Most people outside Italy know Pier Paolo Pasolini for his films, many of which began as literary works"Arabian Nights," "The Gospel According to Matt...
