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)
• Tutte le poesie, ed. Walter Siti, 2 vols., Milan: Mondadori, 2003, Vol. 2.
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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.
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Essays

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

• Empirismo eretico, Milan: Garzanti, 1972, 305 pp. A collection of essays on linguistics, semiotics and literature.
  • 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)
  • Heretical Empiricism, ed. Louise K. Barnett, trans. Ben Lawton and Louise K. Barnett, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988, xxviii+317 pp. Excerpt. (English)

• Scritti corsari, intro. Alfonso Berardinelli, Milan: Garzanti, 1975.

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

• 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.

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

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Corespondence

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

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. (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)
• Barth David Schwartz, Pasolini Requiem, University of Chicago Press, 1992; 2nd ed., 2017. Biography. (English)
• McKenzie Wark, "Lazzarato and Pasolini", Public Seminar, 15 Jun 2015. (English)
• McKenzie Wark, "Pasolini: Sexting the World", Public Seminar, 15 Jul 2015. (English)

Links

• Wikipedia