Books written by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Madame

The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Bilingual Edition

Half a dozen of these books have been excerpted and published in English over the years, but even if one were to read all of those, the wide range of poetic styles and subjects that occupied Pasolini during his lifetime would still elude ...

My Cinema

The book closes with an album of photographs from the archive of Laura Betti, the actress and singer who was Pasolini's close friend and confidante, which include photos of Pasolini with his mother, and in the company of writers such as ...

Poems

"Sex, death, political passion, these are the simple objects to which I give my elegiac heart" Winner of the first Renato Poggioli/William Weaver Award of PEN American Center Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this ...

Pasolini's Bodies and Places

These text were unpublished prior to Corpi e Luoghi. With Stephen Sartarelli's translations in the present edition they now are fully available in English."--Edition Patrick Frey

Stories from the City of God: Sketches and Chronicles of Rome

The pieces in this collection were all published in Italian journals and newspapers, and then later edited by Walter Siti in the original Italian edition.

Ragazzi di vita

Petrolio

Iniziato durante i primi anni Settanta, durante le crisi petrolifera mondiale, e portato avanti fino alla morte, nel novembre 1975, «Petrolio» è un gigantesco frammento di quello che avrebbe dovuto...

P.P.P., Pier Paolo Pasolini: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Death

One of the most outstanding, enigmatic characters of the European intelligentsia in the latter half of the twentieth century, Pier Paolo Pasolini holds an important place in Western cultural history,...

The Letters of Pier Paolo Pasolini: 1940-1954

Heretical Empiricism

This is an expanded edition of Pier Paolo Pasolini's long out-of-print Heretical Empiricism. It includes a new Introduction by Ben Lawton that discusses the relevance of the book on the 30th anniversary of the author's death.

The Ragazzi

This is the story of Riccetto, a rascal among rascals, struggling to survive in the inhuman poverty of post-war Rome, a place of hunger, theft and prostitution.

A Desperate Vitality

Italian poem first published in: Poesia in forma di rosa (Garzanti, 1964).

The Long Sandy Road

An intense text that continues to strike for its depth and poetic sensitivity.

Petrolio: Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

A work in progress at the time of Pasolini's murder, Petrolio is made up of a series of notes - some extended and polished narrative passages, others cryptic messages from...

In Danger: A Pasolini Anthology

In Danger reveals the literary life of internationally renowned filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini

Roman Poems: Pocket Poets Number 41

The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet-the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century.

Saint Paul: A Screenplay

This is a key addition to the growing debate around St Paul and to the proliferation of literature centred on the current turn to religion in philosophy and critical theory, which embraces contemporary figures such as Alain Badiou, Slavoj ...

Stories from the City of God: Sketches and Chronicles of Rome

The pieces in this collection were all published in Italian journals and newspapers, and then later edited by Walter Siti in the original Italian edition.

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