Pasolini Requiem - Barth David Schwartz

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Résumé :
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...

Biographie:
Barth David Schwartz, a Rhodes Scholar who earned degrees from Harvard College and Yale Law School, is a writer based in Baltimore, Maryland. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New Republic, Fortune, and Scientific American, among other publications....

Sommaire:
his flight to Rome in 1950...