Pier Paolo Pasolini - A Violent Life

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Not far from the splendour of tourist Rome are the slum suburbs. Here
immigrants from village and countryside, lured to the capital by promises
of work, gather and make a painful accommodation with the modern world. A
new generation emerges, full of unreal hopes, cunning and resourceful,
brutal and vulnerable. A Violent Life, first published in Italy in 1959, is
the story of that generation. Written by therenowned film maker, poet,
polemicist and novelist Pier Paolo Pasolini, A Violent Life is an uncanny
fictional chronicle of the author's death foretold.
It is the story of Tommaso Puzzilli, a street hood and survivor,
one of the ragazzi di vita born of the shantytown and resorting to crime
and prostitution to get what he wants. When a flood ravages the slums, he
becomes an unexpected hero.