Pier Paolo Pasolini

A Violent Life

Portrait of a working-class man's struggle against poverty and social degradation

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Pier Paolo Pasolini
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.

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