Book Review #141
Boys Alive
by Pier Paolo Pasolini
A slice of Italian Neo-Realism. Not a continuous narrative but instead episodes from the lives of the ragazzi, the urchins, the street boys who live in and around Rome, hustling, flirting, fighting, playing, scrounging for food and money. They steal scrap metal to sell it to buy something to eat or to drink at a bar or to gamble at cards. And all the while the heat is oppressive and there is dirt and filth and squalor everywhere. And yet the book is not depressing. Pasolini's language is propulsive, often coarse, fiery and brimming with life.
by Pier Paolo Pasolini
A slice of Italian Neo-Realism. Not a continuous narrative but instead episodes from the lives of the ragazzi, the urchins, the street boys who live in and around Rome, hustling, flirting, fighting, playing, scrounging for food and money. They steal scrap metal to sell it to buy something to eat or to drink at a bar or to gamble at cards. And all the while the heat is oppressive and there is dirt and filth and squalor everywhere. And yet the book is not depressing. Pasolini's language is propulsive, often coarse, fiery and brimming with life.
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