Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer, screenwriter, playwright and journalist.

Works

(in Italian unless noted otherwise)

Poetry

• Poesie a casarsa, Bologna: Libreria Antiquaria Mario Landi, 1942.
• Poesie, San Vito al Tagliamento: Stamperia Primon, 1945.
• Diarii, Casarsa: Pubblicazioni dell'Academiuta, 1945; 1979.
• I pianti, Casarsa: Pubblicazioni dell'Academiuta, 1946.
• La religione del mio tempo, 1961.
  • Rímske večery, trans. Štefan Žáry, Bratislava: Slovenský spisovateľ, 1965, 40 pp. (Slovak)
• La divina mimesis, Turin: Einaudi, 1975.
  • La divina mímesis, trans. Julia Adinolfi, Barcelona: Icaria, 1976. (Spanish)
  • The Divine Mimesis, trans. Thomas Erling Peterson, Berkeley: Double Dance Press, 1980, 139 pp, PDF, ARG; new ed., trans. & intro. Thomas E . Peterson, New York: Contra Mundum, 2014, 176 pp, Excerpt. (English)
• La nuova gioventù: poesie friulane 1941-1974, Turin: Einaudi, 1975.
• Adulte? Jamais: une anthologie 1941-1953, ed. René de Ceccatty, 2013. (French)
• The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Bilingual Edition, ed. & trans. Stephen Sartarelli, forew. James Ivory, University of Chicago Press, 2014. (Italian)/(English)
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Novels

• Ragazzi di vita, Milan: Garzanti, 1955; new ed., Turin: Einaudi, 1979.
  • Chavales del arroyo, intro. & trans. Miguel Angel Cuevas, Madrid: Nordica, 2008, 341 pp. [1] (Spanish)
• Una vita violenta, Milan: Garzanti, 1959; new ed., Turin: Einaudi, 1979.
• L'odore dell'India, Milan: Longanesi, 1962; new ed., Parma: Guanda, 1990.
• Teorema, Milan: Garzanti, 1968, 203 pp.
  • Teorema, trans. Jugana Stojanović, Belgrade: Rad, 1988, 180 pp. (Serbian)
• Petrolio, eds. Maria Careri and Graziella Chiarcossi, Turin: Einaudi, 1992; new ed., eds. Silvia De Laude and Collana Oscar, Milan: Mondadori, 2005.
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Essays

• Passione e ideologia, 1948-1958, Milan: Garzanti, 1960, 495 pp; new ed., Turin: Einaudi, 1985. (Italian)

• Empirismo eretico, Milan: Garzanti, 1972, 305 pp. A collection of essays on linguistics, semiotics and literature. (Italian)
  • L'Expérience hérétique: langue et cinéma, trans. Anna Rocchi Pullberg, pref. Maria-Antonietta Macciocchi, Paris: Payot, 1976. (French)
  • Freibeuterschriften: die Zerstörung der Kultur des Einzelnen durch die Konsumgesellschaft, trans., comm. & afterw. Reimar Klein, Munich: C. Hanser, 1979, 295 pp. (German)
  • Empirismo hereje, Assirio e Alvim, 1982. (Portuguese)
  • Heretical Empiricism, ed. Louise K. Barnett, trans. Ben Lawton and Louise K. Barnett, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988, xxviii+317 pp, ARG. (English)

• Scritti corsari, intro. Alfonso Berardinelli, Milan: Garzanti, 1975, EPUB, ARG. (Italian)

• Lettere luterane, Turin: Einaudi, 1976, 210 pp. A collection of essays on politics, tolerance, abortion, the Italian government, disobedience, drugs, education, and television. (Italian)
  • Lutheran Letters, trans. Stuart Hood, Manchester: Carcanet New Press, and Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1983, 129 pp. (English)
  • Cartas luteranas, Trotta, 1997. (Spanish)
  • Lettres luthériennes: petit traité pédagogique, trans. Anna Rocchi Pullberg, Paris: Seuil, 2000, 243 pp. (French)

• Stories from the City of God: Sketches and Chronicles of Rome, ed. Walter Siti, trans. Marina Harss, New York: Other Press, 2003, xxxviii+232 pp; repr., 2019. A collection of short fiction and nonfiction from 1950 to 1966. (English)

• Pier Paolo Pasolini: palabra de corsario, Madrid: Círculo de Bellas Artes, 2005, 349 pp. Catalogue. (Spanish),(Italian)

• In Danger: A Pasolini Anthology, ed. & intro Jack Hirschman, San Francisco: City Lights, 2010. A translated collection of Pasolini’s prose, poetry, essays, reviews of books, etc. Excerpt. (English)

• Kleines Meerstück, Vienna: Folio, 2015, 160 pp. (German)

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Collected works

• Romanzi e racconti, 1: 1946-1961, eds. Walter Siti and Silvia De Laude, Milan: Mondadori, 1998. (Italian)
• Romanzi e racconti, 2: 1962-1975, eds. Walter Siti and Silvia De Laude, Milan: Mondadori, 1998, xi+2035 pp. (Italian)

• Saggi sulla politica e sulla società, eds. Walter Siti and Silvia De Laude, Milan: Mondadori, 1999, cxiii+1899 pp, PDF. Contains Saggi sparsi (1942-1973), Scritti corsari (1973-1975), Lettere luterane (1975), Dichiarazioni, inchieste, dibattiti (1959-1975), Dialoghi con i lettori (1960-1970), Il sogno del centauro (1970-1975), and Altre interviste (1958-1975). (Italian)

• Saggi sulla letteratura e sull'arte, 1, eds. Walter Siti and Silvia De Laude, Milan: Mondadori, 1999. Contains Saggi giovanili (1941-1957), Passione e ideologia (1948-1958), Empirismo eretico (1964-1971), and Appendice a "Empirismo eretico" (1965-1968). (Italian)
• Saggi sulla letteratura e sull'arte, 2, eds. Walter Siti and Silvia De Laude, Milan: Mondadori, 1999. Contains Descrizione di descrizioni (1972-1975), Altri saggi della maturità (1958-1975), and Dichiarazioni, inchieste, dibattiti (1953-1975). (Italian)

• Per il cinema, 1, ed. Walter Siti, Milan: Mondadori, 2001, cxx+1572 pp. (Italian)
• Per il cinema, 2, ed. Walter Siti, Milan: Mondadori, 2001, pp 1575-3357. (Italian)

• Teatro, eds. Walter Siti and Silvia De Laude, Milan: Mondadori, 2001, 1266 pp. (Italian)

• Tutte le poesie, 1, ed. Walter Siti, intro. Fernando Bandini, Milan: Mondadori, 2003, cxxxiv+1794 pp. (Italian)
• Tutte le poesie, 2, ed. Walter Siti, intro. Fernando Bandini, Milan: Mondadori, 2003, 2015 pp. (Italian)

Corespondence

• Lettere, 1940-1954, ed. Nico Naldini, Turin: Einaudi, 1986, ARG.
• Lettere 1955-1975, ed. Nico Naldini, Turin: Einaudi, 1986, ARG.

Interviews

• Pasolini rilegge Pasolini. Intervista con Giuseppe Cardillo, ed. Luigi Fontanella, Archinto, 2005, 67 pp. (Italian)
• Pasolini su Pasolini: conversazioni con Jon Halliday, Guanda, 2014, ARG. (Italian)

Literature

• Pier Paolo Pasolini: corpi e luoghi, eds. Michele Mancini and Giuseppe Perrella, Theorema, 1981. (Italian)
  • Pasolini's Bodies and Places, Benedikt Reichenbach, 2017, 640 pp. [2] (English)
• Enzo Golino, Pasolini: Il sogno di una cosa: pedagogia, eros, letteratura dal mito del popolo alla società di massa, Il Mulino, 1985. (Italian)
• Barth David Schwartz, Pasolini Requiem, University of Chicago Press, 1992; 2nd ed., 2017. Biography. (English)
• Enzo Siciliano, Vita di Pasolini, Giunti, 1995. (Italian)
• Robert S.C. Gordon, Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity, Oxford University Press, 1998. (English)
• John David Rhodes, Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome, University of Minnesota Press, 2007. (English)
• Colleen Ryan-Scheutz, Sex, the Self and the Sacred: Women in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini, University of Toronto Press, 2007. (English)
• Guido Santato, Pier Paolo Pasolini: l'opera poetica, narrativa, cinematografica, teatrale e saggistica, Carocci, 2012. (Italian)
• Stefania Benini, Pasolini: The Sacred Flesh, University of Toronto Press, 2015. (English)
• McKenzie Wark, "Lazzarato and Pasolini", Public Seminar, 15 Jun 2015. (English)
• McKenzie Wark, "Pasolini: Sexting the World", Public Seminar, 15 Jul 2015. (English)
• Initiales 7: "PPP (Pier Paolo Pasolini)", ed. Bernhard Rüdiger, Lyon: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Apr 2016, 128 pp. [3] (French)
• Ara H. Merjian, Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism, University of Chicago Press, 2020. [4] (English)

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