Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italian author and filmmaker whose novels Ragazzi di vita and Una vita violenta depict the lives of the Roman subproletariat with ethnographic intensity. His provocative art challenged bourgeois culture and Catholic Italy.
Works
- Ragazzi di vitaGritty novel depicting the lives of street youth in postwar Rome
- A Violent LifePortrait of a working-class man's struggle against poverty and social degradation
- The Ashes of GramsciPoem reflecting on politics, intellectualism, and the legacy of Antonio Gramsci
- Ali dagli occhi azzurri
- PetrolioUnfinished experimental novel mixing fiction, poetry, and sexual transgression