Pier Paolo Pasolini, Author Carcanet Press, $0 (256p) ISBN 978-0-85635-605-6
First published in Italy in 1955, at the beginning of Pasolini's literary career, this novel preceded last year's A Violent Life. The celebrated filmmaker, who died violently at the hands of thugs in 1975, was fatally enthralled by the scurvy...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini, Author, Erroll McDonald, Editor, William Weaver, Translator Pantheon Books $13 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-73505-2
This 1958 novel by the Italian filmmaker Pasolini (1922-1975), long out of print in English, is an excellent reminder of his role as a bridge between the brutal naturalism of the neo-realists and a more fantastic style. The book chronicles the life...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini, Author, Ann Goldstein, Translator Pantheon Books $27 (480p) ISBN 978-0-679-42990-6
Pasolini's unfinished novel, found in his desk shortly after his murder in 1975, explores the psychological workings of fascism in postwar Italy by mapping connections among the Fascist Party, the Mafia, the CIA and even the Communist Party. The...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini, trans. from the Italian by Tim Parks. NYRB Classics, $16.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-68137-762-9
Pasolini’s debut novel, first published in 1955 and given a new translation by Parks, foreshadows his focus as a filmmaker on restless and sometimes dangerous young men struggling to survive the mean streets of postwar Rome. As Parks reveals in his...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini, trans. from the Italian by Stuart Hood. NYRB Classics, $16.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-68137-764-3
Pasolini (Boys Alive) undertakes both a sensual odyssey and an incisive critique of the lack of social conscience of the Italian bourgeoisie in his 1969 novel. A handsome stranger, who is given no name but consistently referred to as “the guest,”...
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