A Violent Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini

'A realist novel of apprentice gangsters.'

This year marks 51 years since the passing of Pier Paolo Pasolini, an artist who Susan Sontag once remarked was "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 Violent Life'. First published in Italy in 1959. Written by the renowned film maker, poet, polemicist and novelist, A Violent Life is an uncanny fictional chronicle of the author's death foretold.

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 Carcanet, 1985

First Carcanet Edition

Translated from the Italian by William Weaver.