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Pier Paolo Pasolini

Works by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Roman Poems [Buy Direct]

by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Translated by L * Valente, F Ferlinghetti

Petrolio [Buy Direct]

by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Translated by Ann Goldstein

The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini (Perspectives (Bloomington, Indiana).) [Buy Direct]

by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sam Rohdie

Letters, 1940-45

by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Translated by S Hood
Original title: Lettere

Letters, 1940-45

by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Lutheran Letters [Buy Direct]

by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Translated by S Hood
Original title: Lettere luterane

A Dream of Something

by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Translated by S Hood
Original title: Il sogno di una cosa

The ‘dream’ is communism, with which Pasolini, as an artist, a genuine, freethinking radical and practising homosexual, had a very difficult relationship. The book returns to his youth in the peasant world of Friuli in North-East Italy. (more...)

A Violent Life [Buy Direct]

by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Una Vita Violenta

Theorem [Buy Direct]

by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Translated by S Hood
Original title: Teorema

Theorem is a late work, produced when Pasolini was reaching the height of his fame as a unique film-maker (Theorem is also the title of a film he made while writing this book). It’s an important book because in it Pasolini coherently demonstrates his anger, (more...)

The Ragazzi [Buy Direct]

by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Translated by Emile Capouya
Original title: I ragazzi di vita

The Ragazzi (‘the lads’) is a unique, cruel but convincing picture of post-war Italy seen from the bottom. (more...)

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