A Dream of Something by Pier Paolo Pasolini

This year marks 51 years since the passing of Pier Paolo Pasolini, an artist who Susan Sontag once remarked was "...indisputably the most remarkable figure to have emerged in Italian arts and letters since the second World War”.

Here we have an early english edition of Pasolini's fantastic novel A Dream of Something. First appearing in Italy in 1962. Written by the renowned film maker, poet, polemicist and novelist, A Dream of Something is Pasolini's pastoral novel, an evocative picture of life in a part of Italy which held bitter sweet memories for him.

Would also highly recommend checking out The Silver Book by Olivia Laing, a queer love story set in Italy the summer of Pasolini's untimely passing and the filming of Fellini’s Casanova. A captivating read if you're a fan of Italian cinema, Pasolini, Fellini or running away to Italy to eat maritozzo, smoke cigarettes and drink vermouth.

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Paperback

Published by Quartet Encounters, 1988

First Quartet Books Edition

Translated from the Italian and with an introduction by Stuart Hood

Cover illustration by Andrew Tiffin

Design by Namara