Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922 75) was one of the most important Italian
intellectuals of the post World War II era. An astonishing polymath
poet, novelist, literary critic, political polemicist,
screenwriter, and film director he exerted profound influence on
Italian culture up to his untimely death at the age of fifty-three.
This revised edition of what the New York Times Book Review has
called "the standard Pasolini biography" introduces the artist to a
new generation of readers. Based on extensive interviews with those
who knew Pasolini, both friends and enemies, admirers and
detractors, Pasolini Requiem chronicles his growth from poet in the
provinces to Italy's leading "civil poet"; his flight to Rome in
1950; the scandalous success of his two novels and political
writing; and his transition to film, where he started as a
contributor to the golden age of Italian cinema and ended with the
shocking Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom. Pasolini's tragic and
still unsolved murder has remained a subject of contentious debate
for four decades. The enduring fascination with who committed the
crime and why reflects his vital stature in Italy's political and
social history. Updated throughout and with a new afterword
covering the efforts to reopen the investigation and the legal
maelstrom surrounding his demise this edition of Pasolini Requiem
is a riveting account of one of the twentieth century's most
controversial, ever-present iconoclasts.
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