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  title info:
    title: Boys alive
  title info:
    title: Ragazzi di vita. English
  name:
    name part: Pasolini, Pier Paolo
    name part: 1922-1975
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Parks, Tim
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: ita
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 209 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: 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 novel and remains his best-known work of fiction. He'd moved to Rome a few years before, after finding himself embroiled in a provincial sex scandal, and the impact of the city on Pasolini, its lively, aggressive dialect, its postwar squalor and violence, was accompanied by a new awareness that for him respectability was no longer an option. "Like it or not, I was tarred with the brush of Rimbaud or even Oscar Wilde." Urgently looking for teaching work, walk-on parts in films, literary journalism, anything to achieve independence and security, he was drawn to other outcasts who cared nothing for bourgeois values, who lived intensely, carelessly, refusing to be hampered by scruple and convention. This was the context in which he began to work on a novel, and though socialism was the intellectual and artistic fashion of the day and Pasolini was a socialist, his book was completely free of any sentimental or patronizing concern for the plight of the underprivileged. Pasolini revels in the vitality of the squalor he so lavishly and energetically evokes. In Boys Alive, he devotes his native lyricism and vast literary resources to conjuring up an urban inferno as vast and hideous as it is colourful and dynamic. There is no grand plot, but Pasolini's narrative voice moves like a heat-seeking missile, infallibly locking onto situations of great intensity, conflict and comedy. Possessing nothing, his young characters fight to survive and to live. At all costs they must have fun. Boredom is death. And if food and fun must be paid for, then money will be found, by looting, hustling, scavenging or stealing. Once found it is immediately squandered on sharp clothes and shoes, drunk away, gambled away or simply lost. Boasting and exhibitionism are the norm, and every…
  note: Pier Paolo Pasolini ; translated from the Italian by Tim Parks.
  note: Translation of: Ragazzi di vita.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-it---
  subject:
    topic: Street children
    geographic: Italy
    geographic: Rome
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Gangs
    geographic: Italy
    geographic: Rome
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PQ4835.A48 R313 2023
  classification: 853/.914
  related item:
    title info:
      title: New York Review Books classics
  identifier: 9781681377629
  identifier: 1681377624
  identifier: 9781681377636
  identifier: 2023007829
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230224
    record change date: 20231220175401.3
    record identifier: in00004762506