Boys Alive – newly translated version of a censored 1955 Italian novel about the sordid lives or Rome’s unhoused youth
posted Saturday, March 30, 2024
Boys Alive, first published in 1955, was author and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s first work of fiction, and it remains his best known to date. Written in the aftermath of Pasolini’s move from the provinces to Rome, the novel captures the. hunger and anger, waywardness and squalor of the big city. The life of […]