Pier Paolo Pasolini is a major figure in Italian culture of the 20th century. Film director, author of several dozen films, each of which is now perceived as a classic - “Oedipus the King”, “The Decameron”, “The Canterbury Tales”, “Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom” and many others. However, by the time Pasolini began filming films, he was already known as a poet, writer and even a politician. Marxist, socialist, the main enfant terrible of post-war Italy - Pasolini lived a life full of adventures, and the unsolved mystery of his murder still haunts minds. This is the first biography of the great Italian published in Russian, it was written by his long-term friend and colleague, which makes it even more interesting .contents From the translator 7 PROLOGUE 13 Hydrodrome in Ostia 15 PART ONE 43 The heart of a boy 45 Quote 45 In the heart of a boy 47 Carl Albert Pasolini 50 The Colussi family 52 A brief history of one marriage 56 Father and son 64 Time of analogy 75 Childhood, adolescence, Guido 75 Friends 80 Literature 90 Poems in Kazars 99 “Pure Light” Resistance 110 I turcs tal Friul 110 School in Casarsa 120Guido and Porzus 133Signs in words 149Friulian epic 158Life in Casarsa 158Active politics 163Politics and culture 172Pedagogy 178Amado mio 182Days of the sentence of De Gasperi 192Endless Friulian intimacy 204As in the novel 219Ramou shello 219The Eclipse of Friuli 229The Nightingale 233PART TWO 245The Discovery of Rome 247The Delightful Monotony of Mystery 247The Unacceptable Existence 252The Poet of "Dust" 280Life Is Thinner 280 "The Shpana" 286 Bologna Workshop 301 Another Life, Other Friends 316 The Poet of "Dust" 330 Polemics in Poems 340 Perspectivism 344 Survival 349 Cinema 355 The History of "Accattone" 355 "The Camera Dolly Against Nature" 363 Consolation in Poverty 369 Sex 371 The Temptation of Cinema 375Years of Persecution 381Dreams Return 406Beautiful Banners 406Africa! The only alternative 413 Scene 418 Matthew 423 Renunciation of the “ridiculous decade” 436 “Ninetto is the messenger ...” 445 Theorem 450 New home 450 Dante’s projects and dreams 452 Linguistic degradation 457 The Raven 463 Life, illness 467 America, America 480 Theorem 489 Renunciation and utopia 500 Sixty-eighth year 500Dear students 509Body in struggle 515“Fear yourself? 518 “This love of ours, so pure” 527 Disappointment in culture and politics 534 “Restoration of the left” 541 Unhappy generation 545 What happened in the country? 548 “Irrelevant” literature 551 Notes on previous chapters 564 Corsair writer 570 Romans 581 “Habits, these sisters of tragedy” 601 EPILOGUE 615 Lust for life 617 APPENDIX 635 Pasolini: life and poetry 637 About Pino Pelosi’s appearance on television (May 2005 648) A note about the novel “Oil” (2003 ) 6542 November 1975 659Acknowledgments 666Notes 668List of names 693