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  • The Divine Mimesis

    Translated by Thomas E. Peterson ...
    Series Book 1 - Critical Century
    In The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini reimagines Dante’s descent into Hell not as allegory but as lived, historical reality—urban, political, and deeply personal. Written in the final years of his life, this unfinished and fiercely experimental work leads us through the wreckage of modern Italy: housing projects, consumer culture, political betrayal, the spiritual void left in the wake of fascism and ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

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  • The Long Road of Sand

    Summer 1959. Pier Paolo Pasolini, driving a Fiat Millecento, travelled along the Italian coastline, to carry out La lunga strada di sabbia [The Long Road of Sand]: a wide report commissioned by the magazine Successo on Italy between tradition and transformation, middle-class holidays and remains of a difficult post-war period. After forty years, the photographer Philippe Séclier has travelled ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Petrolio

    Translated by Ann Goldstein ...
    Notorious writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final novel—visionary, phenomenally strange, and unfinished at the time of his brutal murder—tells a fragmentary and characteristically provocative story of an oil executive split between the desire to dominate and the desire to be dominated.Seventeen years after Pier Paolo Pasolini’s brutal death, his sprawling, unfinished magnum opus was ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Boys Alive

    Translated by Tim Parks ...
    A daring novel, once widely censored, about the scrappy, harrowing, and inventive lives of Rome's unhoused youth by one of Italy's greatest film directors.Boys Alive, published in 1955, was Pier Paolo Pasolini's first work of fiction and it remains his best known. Written in the aftermath of Pasolini's move from the provinces to Rome, the novel captures the. hunger and anger, waywardness and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Stories from the City of God

    Sketches and Chronicles of Rome

    Now in paperback, a collection of the legendary filmmaker's short fiction and nonfiction from 1950 to 1966, in which we see the machinations of the creative mind in post-World War II Rome.In a portrait of the city at once poignant and intimate, we find artistic witness to the customs, dialect, squalor, and beauty of the ancient imperial capital that has succumbed to modern warfare, marginalization ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Theorem

    Translated by Stuart Hood ...
    This tale about seduction, obsession, family, and the confines of capitalism is one of director Pier Paolo Pasolini's most fascinating creations, based on his transcendent film of the same name.Theorem is the most enigmatic of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s four novels. The book started as a poem and took shape both as a work of fiction and a film, also called Theorem, released the same year. In short ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Street Kids

    Translated by Ann Goldstein ...
    The "provocative" novel about hard-living teenagers in poverty-stricken postwar Rome, by the renowned Italian filmmaker ( The New York Times).Set during the post–World War II years in the Rome of the borgate—outlying neighborhoods beset by poverty and deprivation— The Street Kids tells the story of a group of adolescents belonging to the urban underclass. Living hand-to-mouth, Riccetto and his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The New Youth

    Translated by Luigi Bonaffini ...
    Poet, linguist, novelist, filmmaker, and journalist, Pasolini was one of the great post-Marxist homosexual artists of his time. As such, he encountered problems throughout his career as both a writer and a filmmaker. The expression of his own sexuality in his art consistently offended not only the Roman Catholic orthodoxy of post-war Italy, but also the Marxist establishment. His vision of Marxism ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • St. Paul

    A Screenplay

    Presented here for the first time in English is a remarkable screenplay about the apostle Paul by Pier Paolo Pasolini, legendary filmmaker, novelist, poet, and radical intellectual activist. Written between the appearance of his renowned film Teorema and the shocking, controversial Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, St Paul was deemed too risky for investors. At once a political intervention and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Narrating Multiplicities in Motion

    The Transformative Power of Storytelling in Anglophone Cultures

    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Narrating Multiplicities in Motion brings together a dynamic collection of interdisciplinary essays that explore storytelling as a powerful tool for resisting dominant narratives and imagining equitable futures. Grounded in Cultural Studies, English and Anglophone Literature, and Linguistics, the volume examines how narrative practices reframe identity, challenge systemic inequalities, and foster ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Bodies that bleed

    Metamorphosis in Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales

    Edited by Anna Pasolini ...
    Series series Di/Segni
    This work aims to develop new readings of the poetics and the politics of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) in the light of the bodily metamorphoses represented in the fairy tales. Metamorphic processes can be said to inform the stories of the collection both in a thematic and a stylistic perspective and address the need to rethink human experience altogether, especially ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    HiBrow: Classic British Cinema - The Full Monty

    Unabridged

    50 min

    Some of the cast and production team are interviewed about their roles and the making of the 1997 hit film 'The Full Monty'.Interviews with Hugo Speer, Simon Beaufoy, Petter Cattaneo, Ulberto Pasolini and Jill Taylor.Listen to find out about the casts first reaction to the script, first auditions, how the script developed before filming and where the idea for the film actually came from. Includes ... Read more

    $4.99 USD