Ragazzi di vita

Name: Ragazzi di vita
Author: Pier Paolo Pasolini

by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Gritty novel depicting the lives of street youth in postwar Rome

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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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