Pier Paolo Pasolini

• Mar-1997
• / General Fiction
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An unfinished novel by the murdered Italian author and filmmaker focuses on Carlo, a left-wing Italian Catholic working for the state-controlled oil company, a man who becomes obsessed with satisfying his perverse, insatiable sexual passions....

• Nov-1999
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• Nov-2003
• / General Fiction
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Now in paperback, a collection of the legendary filmmaker's short fiction and nonfiction from 1950 to 1966, in which we see the machinations of the creative mind in post-World War II Rome.In a portrait of the city at once poignant and intimate, we fi...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction
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An unsentimental depiction of the poverty and chaos of life in the slums of 1950s postwar Rome, this novel follows Ricetto, an Italian youth, and his gang who survive by their wits, their cruelty, and their instincts for survival. Their lives are s...

• Nov-2007
• / Action Adventure
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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. Born in a shantytown, Tommaso Puzzilli was once young and hopeful, but he soon succumbs to ...

• Aug-2016
• / Literary
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The “provocative” novel about hard-living teenagers in poverty-stricken postwar Rome, by the renowned Italian filmmaker (The New York Times).   Set during the post�"World War II years in the Rome of the borgate -- outlying neighborhoods bes...

• Jun-2023
• / General Fiction
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Milan, 1959. New Year's Eve. A mob of teenage bullies roams the town. Self-styled teddy boys, they arm-wrestle, rob, flirt, and fight. In the background, a brutal city that becomes alive at night with the lights of skyscrapers and the howls of bikers...

• Oct-2023
• / General Fiction
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A daring novel, once widely censored, about the scrappy, harrowing, and inventive lives of Rome's unhoused youth by one of Italy's greatest film directors. Boys Alive, published in 1955, was Pier Paolo Pasolini's first work of fiction and...

• Oct-2023
• / General Fiction
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This tale about seduction, obsession, family, and the confines of capitalism is one of director Pier Paolo Pasolini's most fascinating creations, based on his transcendent film of the same name. Theorem is the most enigmatic of Pier Paolo Paso...