"Stories From the City of God" collects legendary filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini's short fiction and nonfiction from 1950 to 1966. In these pieces, we see the machinations of the creative mind in consideration of the character of Rome after World War II. Presenting a portrait of the city that is at once poignant and intimate, as honest as if it were the author's journal, we find here artistic witness to the customs, dialect, squalor, and beauty of the ancient imperial capital that has succumbed to modern warfare, ...
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"Stories From the City of God" collects legendary filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini's short fiction and nonfiction from 1950 to 1966. In these pieces, we see the machinations of the creative mind in consideration of the character of Rome after World War II. Presenting a portrait of the city that is at once poignant and intimate, as honest as if it were the author's journal, we find here artistic witness to the customs, dialect, squalor, and beauty of the ancient imperial capital that has succumbed to modern warfare, marginalization, and mass culture. The sketches portray the impoverished masses that he calls "the sub-proletariat," those who live under Third World conditions and for whom simple pleasures, such as a blue sweater in a storefront window, are completely out of reach. In the chronicles, Pasolini faithfully renders life in Rome in the infinite stretches of public housing on the periphery of the city. Pasolini's art develops throughout the works collected here, from his early lyricism to tragicomic outlines for screenplays, and finally to the maturation of his Neo-realism in eight chronicles on the shantytowns of Rome. The pieces in this collection were all published in Italian journals and newspapapers, and then later edited by Walter Siti in the original Italian edition. Marina Harss of The New Yorker has translated the work for its first publication in English by Other Press.
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Add this copy of Stories From the City of God to cart. $11.03, good condition, Sold by Goodwill Southern California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Other Press (NY).
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Near fine in Very good+ jacket. Gray paper covered boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has hint of sun and wear to edges of boards and spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ rubbed.
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Very Good in Very Good- jacket. Size: 8x5x1; Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean and tight. No markings. Dust jacket has some edge wear. Ships in a box. Ships from NYC.
Add this copy of Stories From the City of God: Sketches and Chronicles to cart. $45.00, very good condition, Sold by Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Springfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Other Press (Handsel Books),.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1590510488. Edited by Walter Siti. Translated from the Italian by Marina Harss. First printing thus. Near fine in a near fine (some light foxing to flaps) dust jacket.
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