Pasolini Requiem

"A beautifully evocative biography . . . of one of contemporary Western culture's few true Renaissance men." -San Francisco Chronicle

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 Y...