The first book in Russia introducing the reader to the brilliant cultural heritage of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922 - 1975) - prose writer, film director, screenwriter, critic, publicist, essayist, and, above all, a poet, a poet in everything. The work of Pasolini is an offender canons and at the same time a successor of artistic traditions, a myth-maker, mystic, corsair and prophet, who felt himself an outcast and a messiah, is inseparable from his life, and different forms of self-expression continue each other: the same themes and motives are developed in them, fundamental ones arise again and again for Pasolini, images and categories are Mother and Father, Sea and Desert, Eros, Death, the Sacred, History, Power. From page to page, the paradoxes of his works and interviews form a unique worldview.